From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@canonical.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
kyle@canonical.com
Subject: Re: HPA patches
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:30:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070328213017.GG4630@athena.road.mcmartin.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070328225431.69d0a3cc@the-village.bc.nu>
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:54:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Hm. I tried adding it in the eh code after ata_set_mode() in
> > ata_eh_recover(), which alters the problem slightly - hpa_sectors is
> > still 0, so the taskfile call is still failing, but now the system just
> > stops at around the time that anything attempts to access sda with no
> > errors other than
>
> I wonder if the firmware is dying when we ask the disk to go zero sized
> rather than erroring politely. I'm not sure hth HPA sectors can come back
> as zero but we can be fairly sure 0 means "no HPA" in this case I guess ?
>
The command is "Read Native Max Sectors" which should be the full disk
size as long as the command is supported, and the size returned by IDENTIFY
would be smaller if HPA was in use.
AIUI at least.
Cheers,
Kyle
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-28 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-23 19:13 Alan Cox
2007-03-23 18:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 19:22 ` David Miller
2007-03-23 21:51 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 20:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 21:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 22:47 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-13 3:16 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-04-13 10:56 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 20:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-27 5:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-26 20:45 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-03-28 0:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 0:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 1:16 ` ata_piix can't drive Mac hardware properly Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 4:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 9:57 ` HPA patches Alan Cox
2007-03-28 20:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-28 21:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 21:30 ` Kyle McMartin [this message]
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