Re:"in short, must the BIOS be set to LBA as well?" --> YES

From: AnonymousFC3 (no_at_email.net)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:41:04 -0800

Short but assertive answer is YES, set your BIOS to LBA (should be the
default option!), then reinstall everything. 

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For anyone who has a fairly new system and disk drive (less than say 4
years), the BIOS should be set to LBA, which resolves many problems due to
the stupidity of the original implementation of the IDE/ATA specification,
which was relly a disaster: the CHS to physical as hard to program on the
disk side was quite difficult to program (dues to an irrational algorithm),
and resulted in buggy disks. To make the matter better, it made the
programing work harder on the OS side!
LBA (inherited from the SCSI interface), resolved pretty much all theses
issues.
AFC3
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Andrew Falanga wrote:
> So, in short, must the BIOS be set to LBA as well?
> Andy

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