>As you can see, LBA is more efficient on the controller end, but >because of its max capacity you need to revert back to CHS on drives >larger than 8 gigs. Once drives start hitting 128 gigs, LBA will >probably be extended to 32 or more bits within the ATA standard, as 32 >bit LBA will give a max capacity of 2048 gigs. Once drives hit anything over 30GB people will reliaze that UltraDMA isn't the way to go... :)