Dual-boot problem (LBA mode question)

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Wed May 26 01:57:53 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:38, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I plan to install FC2 this weekend. I have a Windows partition but I have 
> nothing to loose there :) Therefore, I'm going to install FC2 and if I'm 
> lucky, my Windows partition should still be accesible. If not, then I'm going 
> to try the LBA option thing for my HD. I'm going to try that and hopefully 
> (reading other posts) that should make it.

Dude.. why don't you just turn on LBA by default? BTW, is your machine
fairly new? I heard that newer machines do not suffer from this effect.

> My question is: Is there any drawback using LBA? Any performance issue 
> whatsover? 

Dunno. I think it's the same. No Idea whatsoever





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