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From: James Finnie <jf1@IMERGE.co.uk>
To: "'ebiederm@xmission.com'" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	James Finnie <jf1@IMERGE.co.uk>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'andre@linux-ide.org'" <andre@linux-ide.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH]:  Sanity checking for drives that claim to be LBA-48, but aren't!
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:02:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C0D45ABB3F45D5118BBC00508BC292DB9D4266@imgserv04> (raw)

 
> There are also a set of bits that reports which revs of the 
> ATA standard
> a drive complies with.  Should we check that one as well?  
> 
> Eric
>  

Knowing my luck, those bits are probably broken on my drives too :)

Sounds like common sense though.  I don't pretend to know enough about how
the IDE driver works in order fix it... Andre? :) 


James


Oh, appologies to everyone for the line-wrapped patch, M$Exchange has *LOTS*
to answer for.  If you want the patch without line-wraps, email me and I'll
send it as an attachment.  Didn't want to polute the list.
 


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             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-17  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-17 10:02 James Finnie [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-17  9:02 James Finnie
2002-10-17  9:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-17 10:26 ` Andries Brouwer

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