SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message << >> Next Message >>

Date:	Sun, 1 Jun 2003 09:42:41 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	SCOUG Help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Wayne's IDE... IMPORTANT

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

In <1054464803-0-Info@SYNass.NET>, on 06/01/03
at 10:53 AM, "Info 4 SYNass" said:

>BIOS - Standard CMOS Features:
>-> IDE Primary Slave: WSC400EB-00CPF0
>AUTO / LBA
>40018 MB
>CAL 4868
>HEAD 255
>PRECOMP 0
>LZ 19157
>SECTOR 63

This is a typical LBA setup. If you read up on LBA, you will find these
numbers more more confusing than anything else. It's the legacy of bad PC
design decisions made long ago. To access a drive >8GB, the BIOS or the
driver has to send commands contains in logical block number (LBA). The
drive translates this into true CHS values. The confusing arises when
some driver puts the drive into one of the CHS modes and tries access the
drive with a conflicting mapping.

>What's Steven's opinon / Suggestion here ?

If it were me, I would continue on the path that I have been leading
Wayne, We seem to be having some sucess. :-)

Steven

--
---------------------------------------------------------------------
"Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.37 #10183 Warp4/FP15/14.085_W4
www.scoug.com irc.webbnet.org #scoug (Wed 7pm PST)
---------------------------------------------------------------------

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 01 | June | 2003 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.