Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Feb 2002 07:10:45 -0500 | From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] clipped disk reports clipped lba size |
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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Some disk types fake LBA at 33.8GB, but allow access past this point. > Some disks actually give I/O errors past the 33.8GB (when jumpered), > and a SETMAX command is needed to make the rest accessible. > > Two years ago I wrote a tiny utility setmax that does this. > If I am not mistaken this stuff is now part of the 2.5 kernel. > No doubt some of it will eventually be backported to 2.4 / 2.2 / 2.0. > It is in 2.4.18-pre7-ac1.
Alan has said (quite reasonably) that he is not interested in inclusion of the big IDE patch that exists for 2.2.x -- however, a minimal cut and paste backport from 2.4.x IDE to just support HDIO_DRIVE_CMD_AEB (and thus support setmax) is only about a 100 line diff which I did a while ago.
If there is any interest in this I can check it still applies cleanly to current 2.2 pre kernel and send it along for inclusion.
Paul.
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