Hi... LBA can't hurt. It's Linear Block Addressing (am I sure I have that right?), it basically is a BIOS feature (I think; it might be an IDE controller feature) that translates a hard disk's normal Cylinder-Head-Sector three-dimensional addresses to a linear (i.e. block 0, block 1, ...) addressing scheme. This also allows your system to access much larger disks. (3D addressing was invented well before a 500 MB harddisk even came into existence..)
Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:37:35 +0200 > From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Fwd: LBA or not LBA > Resent-Date: 20 Jul 1998 21:38:01 -0000 > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > -----Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Mueller)----- > > Return-Path: <murphy.debian.org!joey> > Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) > by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE > id <m0ywMxY-001MxwC>; Wed, 15 Jul 98 10:30 MET DST > Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.novare.net [205.229.104.6]) > by namib.north.de (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id KAA28944 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:26:31 +0200 > Received: (qmail 24537 invoked by uid 847); 15 Jul 1998 08:23:52 -0000 > Received: (qmail 24522 invoked by uid 38); 15 Jul 1998 08:23:52 -0000 > Received: (qmail 24515 invoked by uid 38); 15 Jul 1998 08:23:52 -0000 > Date: 15 Jul 1998 08:23:51 -0000 > X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 15 03:23:51 1998 > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: (qmail 24494 invoked from network); 15 Jul 1998 08:23:50 -0000 > Received: from deimos.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (131.173.17.11) > by murphy.novare.net with SMTP; 15 Jul 1998 08:23:50 -0000 > Received: from phoebe.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE. (net0phoebe [131.173.253.2]) > by deimos.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA38824 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:23:43 +0200 > From: Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > by phoebe.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE. (8.8.6/8.8.6) id KAA15824 > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:23:38 +0200 > Old-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:23:38 +0200 > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: LBA or not LBA > X-Diagnostic: Unprocessed > X-Envelope-To: debian-user-request > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Old-X-Status: F > X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi All > > What setting's have I have to choose > (for Linux to work fine - of course!) > in the BIOS for my harddisk? > > It ist a 2.1 GB Seagate > > a) USER 2.1 .. .. .. .. LBA > b) USER 2.1 .. .. .. .. NORMAL > > > For Dos, it is LBA - I know... > > By All > -am > > -----End of forwarded message----- > > -- > We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. > - Linus Torvalds > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
