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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Bogus LBA48 drives
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Apparently some IDE drives (e.g. a pile of 80 GB ST380020ACE drives I have
> access to) advertise to support LBA48, but don't, causing kernels that support
> LBA48 (i.e. anything newer than 2.4.18, including 2.4.25 and 2.6.4) to fail on
> them. Older kernels (including 2.2.20 on the Debian woody CDs) work fine.
>
> One problem with those drives is that the lba_capacity_2 field in their drive
> identification is set to 0, making the IDE driver think the disk is 0 bytes
> large. At first I tried modifying the driver to use lba_capacity if
> lba_capacity_2 is set to 0, but this caused disk errors. So it looks like those
> drives don't support the increased transfer size of LBA48 neither.
>
> I added a workaround for these drives to both 2.4.25 and 2.6.4. I'll send
> patches in follow-up emails.

Patch for 2.6.4 (and 2.6.5-rc3):
- Check for lba_capacity_2 being non-zero in idedisk_supports_lba48()

--- linux-2.6.4/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c.orig 2004-03-12 12:02:53.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.4/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c 2004-03-26 13:54:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -1058,7 +1058,8 @@
*/
static inline int idedisk_supports_lba48(const struct hd_driveid *id)
{
- return (id->command_set_2 & 0x0400) && (id->cfs_enable_2 & 0x0400);
+ return (id->command_set_2 & 0x0400) && (id->cfs_enable_2 & 0x0400)
+ && id->lba_capacity_2;
}

static inline void idedisk_check_hpa(ide_drive_t *drive)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert

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