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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: "Mark Lord" <liml@rtr.ca>, "Hanno Böck" <hanno@hboeck.de>,
	"Robert Hancock" <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:35:18 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0902142228410.651@ftp.linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4996E924.3060600@ru.mvista.com>

Hi Sergei,

> > not explicit about how words 57 and 58 were meant to be ordered and some
> > manufacturers interpreted it one and some the other way.
> 
>   However, the drive vendors should've really thought better before reporting
> capacity in *middle-endian* format. :-)

 Oh, come on!  Don't accuse everyone of thinking.  Besides, someone had to 
try that reverse-pdp-endian mode, didn't they? ;)

  Maciej

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-14 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-13 13:28 Hanno Böck
2009-02-13 14:34 ` Robert Hancock
2009-02-14 12:52   ` Hanno Böck
2009-02-14 13:21     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-14 14:25       ` Mark Lord
2009-02-14 15:31         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-02-14 15:54           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-14 22:35             ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2009-02-14 17:58           ` Robert Hancock

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