Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jun 2002 01:41:46 +0200 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Trivial, IDE geometry fix / defconfig changes |
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:56:17PM +0100, Robert Cardell wrote:
> --- ide-disk.c.old Tue Jun 4 21:09:10 2002 > +++ ide-disk.c Tue Jun 4 21:09:44 2002 > @@ -929,9 +929,9 @@ > > if (id->cfs_enable_2 & 0x0400) { > capacity_2 = id->lba_capacity_2; > - drive->cyl = (unsigned int) capacity_2 / (drive->head * drive->sect); > drive->head = drive->bios_head = 255; > drive->sect = drive->bios_sect = 63; > + drive->cyl = (unsigned int) capacity_2 / (drive->head * drive->sect); > drive->select.b.lba = 1; > set_max_ext = idedisk_read_native_max_address_ext(drive); > if (set_max_ext > capacity_2) { >
Yes, let me confirm: this patch is required. I sent it to the list on 10 Feb 2002 ("[PATCH] tiny IDE fixes"); apparently nobody picked it up, or at least it didnt reach 2.4.19-pre9 yet. That patch also removed some dead code.
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