Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: Sanity checking for drives that claim to be LBA-48, but aren't! | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 17 Oct 2002 03:35:12 -0600 |
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James Finnie <jf1@IMERGE.co.uk> writes:
> The kernel sees this bit set, tries to use LBA-48 commands, and the drive > errors, complaining that it doesn't understand! Meaning this drive is > unusable with the >=2.4.19 kernels. I think at least one other person has > reported something very similar, IIRC with a very old Maxtor IDE drive. > > Here is a patch that does some basic sanity checking. If the drive has an > lba_capacity_2==0, and has the bit set claiming to be LBA-48, it ignores > this claim. > There are also a set of bits that reports which revs of the ATA standard a drive complies with. Should we check that one as well?
Eric
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