Re: IDE bug - was: Re: uncorrectable ext2 errors

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

On Wednesday 13 of August 2003 00:50, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:36:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sul, 2003-08-10 at 23:33, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > >         if (drive->addressing == 1)             /* 48-bit LBA */
> > >                 return lba_48_rw_disk(drive, rq, (unsigned long long)
> > > block); if (drive->select.b.lba)                /* 28-bit LBA */ return
> > > lba_28_rw_disk(drive, rq, (unsigned long) block); return
> > > chs_rw_disk(drive, rq, (unsigned long) block);
> > >
> > > with checking the size of block.
> > > And init_idedisk_capacity() does not check addressing.
> >
> > It should also issue LBA28 if the size of th range and the end block
> > fall under the LBA28 limit because thst saves you valuable I/O time.
> >
> > Jens had patches for that but I don't know where they went in 2.6
>
> That is something different. The patches I gave (I gave patches didnt I?)
> limit the total capacity for large disks if the controller doesnt speak
> lba48.

No, you didn't.  You gave some whining and patch sketch. :-)

> That is necessary to avoid very unpleasant surprises.
>
> But saving some time during I/O, yes, maybe I suggested Jens what to do
> and he did it. Hmm. I don't see the code anymore.
> Google(Jens Andries rq_lba48) gives the patch.
> Ah, I see. His patch went in - I see Changeset 1.1046.31.30 if that
> means anything, - and Bartlomiej asked for it to be reverted again.
> So, Jens's patches are lost for the moment. Must remember to resurrect
> them.

...when taskfile IO is the only IO path not earlier.

Jan, did removing offending lines from pdc202xx_old.c help?

--bartlomiej