Re: UDMA disks
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> >My particular system here is an MTech mobo with Award BIOS. Just for
> >grins, I set the BIOS setup for each drive from "Normal" to "LBA". All of
> >my errors seem, so far (knock on head), to have gone away! I know that
>
> This can only be by chance, since it doesn't make any sense at all.
>
> The LBA setting is just a "software setting." It changes the way the BIOS
> interprets the drive geometry ans is only used at the beginning of the boot
> process. The LBA seeting does NOT initialize the IDE controller. As soon as the
> Linux kernel gains control the LBA setting becomes meaningless.
This is what I thought and why I had ignored the setting. All I know is
that it worked for me.
George Bonser
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