Re: [TCLUG:17648] Moving the install & Linux fdisk 20gb IDE drive h*ll

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

I'm not so sure that LBA is a kludge.  AFAIK, LBA has
_always_ been used w/ SCSI disks.  Also, I think that
LBA came about when drives reached about 504(?)MB in
size (which is before Windows 95).  LBA is, AFAIK, more
efficient than normal (which is probably ECHS "large")
disk support.

I've never had any problems with Linux accessing any of
my LBA drives.  Make sure you have INT13 extensions
turned on in your BIOS (you do have them turned on, don't
you?)

Nick Reinking





carls@agritech.com, on 05/15/2000 09:03:36 AM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:17648] Moving the install & Linux fdisk 20gb IDE drive h*ll

>You really* should be using LBA...

no.
LBA is a kludge done for the sake of Lose95. it can cause you partitioning
problems, and problems mounting those partitions.

if you have a *very* simple partitioning scheme, it probably doesn't matter.
(so if you dual-boot a drive between Windows and Linux, just do swap and
root partitions under Linux). more than a couple of partitions, tho; and
you're on thin ice.

this *has* bitten me in the past. RH6.0 refused to mount a partition at
install time, because the drive was in LBA mode. when i changed it back to
'normal'. everything worked fine.

Carl Soderstrom
System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave. 
Minnesota DHIA          Buffalo, MN     
carls@agritech.com      (763) 682-1091


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