Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: drivers/block/paride/pd.c vs. generic IDE code | From | Jonathan Amery <> | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:32:43 +0100 |
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In article <200208241032.g7OAWOoS006611@mail.mplayerhq.hu> you write: >Hi, > >I've recently bought an parallel-to-ide interface, and after some kernel >hacking to get it work i found several problems with the currect (2.4.19) >paride interface. Actually the files drivers/block/paride/p?.c and pcd.c >are stripped down ide interface code (duplicate of the generic ide code at >drivers/ide/*) > >As you're on changing/redesigning the IDE code of the 2.5 tree, I would >consider taking a look at the paride interface and include it into the new >generic IDE code. > >Current problems/limitations of paride code: >- no support for LBA (>32GB) or big (>128GB) disks > (i've hacked LBA support into pd.c to get my 40G hdd work - i'll prepare a > patch when i'm statisfied with testing results)
There appears to be LBA support in 2.5 nowadays - I've backported the patch (which appears to be working - no guarrentees though!).
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~jdamery/pd.lba.patch
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