Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Have anybody seen ATA drive without LBA support in last years?
Yes
What it is? Some ancient HDD or flash card?
I run 20+ assorted hosts from 4.11 to 7.2 Uni & Dual proc, i386 (real 386!)
to 686 & amd64, so I guess I'm
A) Pretty vulnerable to legacy scare.
B) A litmus tesst for a wider community of others, some with older kit,
not on lists or with bleeding edge latest hardware, but will
get hit when stuff eg HCS gets declared legacy=dumped.
(hardware@ & arch@ are more likely mostly high enders,
lower percentage of legacy hardware users I guess)
Are you administering computer hardware museum? ;)
I have tested all drives I have and found none requiring CHS support.
Even most ancient 850MB HDD and 16MB CompactFlash card I have support
LBA. I have doubts that something even older that this is still working
in production and require system there to be upgraded to 8.x.
If I have to pull the lid on 20/25 hosts, to check disk sticky
labels, I will if I must, but could you please reccomend people
syntax to run on 4 5 6 7 RELEASES to check if a host is susceptible ?
(Yes I know 4 is declares dead, but I still have lots of
hosts with it & I suspect quite a lot of others do,
be nice to know if any of those boxes are doomed to only
upgarde to 7 not 8 )
`atacontrol cap adX` can show you if LBA is supported.
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Alexander Motin
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