At 08:47 2/16/2005, Rob wrote:
--- Mars Trading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This idea may seem useless but what have you got to > lose? > > Have you tried changing bios setting for hard drive > mode to "auto" or > something other than "LBA"? Maybe "LARGE" or "CHS"?
Is there a risk that I lose all data on my disk, when changing this in the BIOS?
I wouldn't exactly call it a "risk" -- if you change the disk geometry in the bios, you will lose all the data on that drive, guaranteed. Of course, if you don't write anything to it, you can just change it back and it'll still be there. If you don't write anything to it though, it's not going to boot.
BTW: During the fresh FreeBSD install, I have never encountered a choice for formatting with or without LBA. In the Fdisk window, I choose 'use entire disk for FreeBSD', and in the partition window I have set 'newfs' for all partitions.
LBA is a BIOS thing as was mentioned, not a freebsd install thing. It's an abstraction layer between the drive and the controller.
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