Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Experimental IDE oops dumper v0.1 | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:22:10 -0400 (EDT) |
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> > to do for legacy free cases but the other bits like LBA48 and retuning > > probably can be handled with some small chipset specific hooks > > Retuning not needed, LBA48 might be needed. Not sure about LBA48 in PIO > mode, it might work even without chipset support - it's usually the > LBA48+DMA combination that confuses the chips.
Well we know if it wont work pretty easily, but we need the dump code LBA48 aware otherwise a dump on the end of the disk may end up dumping on the wrong part if it wraps - again could be detected - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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