On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:10:59PM -0800, Michael St. Laurent wrote:
> I've got a laptop system with Red Hat 9 installed on it. I noted the other
> day when I was in the BIOS that LBA mode was turned on and I wondered if
> perhaps I should have turned it off before installing. Would I have a
> faster system if I were to turn it off and reinstall?
>
> Here are my hard drive stats:
>
> root@laptop root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>
> Model=IBM-DJSA-220, FwRev=JS4OAC3A, SerialNo=44T44GW3130
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1874kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=65535/1/63, CurSects=4128705, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39070080
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
> AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
> Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1: 2 3 4 5
>
> [root@laptop root]#
>
> --
Once upon a time when the boot blocks had to be before cylinder 1024
turning off LBA would have been a disaster. Now thinks are somewhat
better with the updated BIOS. But I don't thing turning LBA off will
be much of an improvement in speed of access.
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