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SubjectRe: IDE bug - was: Re: uncorrectable ext2 errors
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On Thursday 14 of August 2003 00:05, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:27:33PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > Ah, yes, it was that one. Yes, my patch turned into a mess of rejects
> > after your layout changes of earlier patches from that series.
>
> Here is the most important part (limiting the disk capacity to 137GB if
> LBA48 is not available) as a patch agains 2.4.21. The goto is not nice,
> but I didn't want to do a major rewrite.

Major rewrite is already present in 2.6.0-test3 and there is more to go.

> Note that the function contains a bogous if-clause:
>
> if (id->cfs_enable_2 & 0x0400) {
> [...]
> return;
> }
> [...]
> if ((id->command_set_2 & 0x0400) && (id->cfs_enable_2 & 0x0400)) {
> [...]
>
> The second if-condition can never be true. But I didn't want to touch
> that stuff.

Already removed from 2.6.

> --- linux-2.4.21/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c.orig 2003-08-13 23:14:32.000000000
> +0200 +++ linux-2.4.21/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c 2003-08-13 23:14:34.000000000
> +0200 @@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@
> drive->bios_cyl = drive->cyl;
> drive->capacity48 = capacity_2;
> drive->capacity = (unsigned long) capacity_2;
> - return;
> + goto check_capacity48;
> /* Determine capacity, and use LBA if the drive properly supports it */
> } else if ((id->capability & 2) && lba_capacity_is_ok(id)) {
> capacity = id->lba_capacity;
> @@ -1228,6 +1228,15 @@
> drive->sect = 63;
> drive->cyl = (unsigned long)(drive->capacity48) / (drive->head *
> drive->sect); }
> +
> +check_capacity48:
> + /* Limit disk size to 137GB if LBA48 addressing is not supported */
> + if (drive->addressing == 0 && drive->capacity48 > (1ULL)<<28) {
> + printk("%s: cannot use LBA48 - capacity reset "
> + "from %llu to %llu\n",
> + drive->name, drive->capacity48, (1ULL)<<28);
> + drive->capacity48 = (1ULL)<<28;
> + }
> }
>
> static unsigned long idedisk_capacity (ide_drive_t *drive)

Yep, thats basically it.

Have you already tried doing LBA-48 as previously suggested
(after applying hang-fix of course)?

--bartlomiej

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