From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-pre2-ac5 Promise PDC20269
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:15:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020821031509.GA11920@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10208201936000.3867-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
On Tue Aug 20, 2002 at 07:40:37PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > hde reduced to Ultra33 mode.
> > hde: host protected area => 1
> > hde: 117266688 sectors (60041 MB) w/1820KiB Cache, CHS=116336/16/63, UDMA(133)
BTW that host protected area message is pretty silly. It gives
the appearance that perhaps the BIOS has issued a SET MAX ADDRESS
when in fact, all the message is doing is enumerating the drive's
capabilities (duplicating what 'hdparm -I' does). At the
minimum, this message should be changed to something more like:
printk("%s: host protected area supported: %s\n",
drive->name, (flag==1)? "no" : "yes");
Personally, I think we should lose the message entirely. If
someone want to know what their drive can do, they can ask
hdparm and get a full listing,
-Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-21 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-21 2:11 Jason C. Pion
2002-08-21 2:40 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-21 3:15 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2002-08-21 3:40 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-21 7:41 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-21 13:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-21 14:05 ` Daniel Egger
2002-08-21 15:02 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-22 11:53 ` Daniel Egger
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