Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:26:14 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: Sanity checking for drives that claim to be LBA-48, but aren't! |
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:02:00AM +0100, James Finnie wrote:
> Upon investigation of this with Seagate, it turns out that the firmware > version in question is for CE (consumer electronics) use. They have used > bit 10 of word 86 (0x56) of the IDENTIFY DEVICE information to indicate some > feature in their "AV streaming data transfer set". This breaks ATA-7, which > says this bit indicates that the drive understands LBA-48 commands. > > 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.
Could you post the identify data for your disks? (cat /proc/ide/*/identify)
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