> I know I could use LBA mode. I originally used LBA mode for months but > noticed a couple of possible problems. I say possible since I can't prove > they were caused by using LBA mode. > > 1. My drive seemed to fill faster as if the files were using more space > than they should have. I have the same install using 450MB that was using > almost 600 in LBA mode. > > 2. After about 4 months in LBA mode programs began to report missing > files. When I checked manually the files were there. And I started > getting reports of the file system being out of sync. > > As I said. I don't know if it was LBA causing these problems but I > haven't had it happen since I went back to normal mode. > > Has anybody else noticed this? Or does anybody know for sure LBA didn't > cause this. If so I could just switch back to LBA mode and forget it. I'm not sure... but I've been having on-going disk corruption problems. I just checked to see if I hade LBA mode enabled, and it was. I'll try running without LBA mode and see if the situation improves. I hope that's it. Thanks for the idea. Cheers, - Jim
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