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SubjectRe: [PATCH]: Sanity checking for drives that claim to be LBA-48, but aren't!
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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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