Re: [PATCH] ide: limit drive capacity to 137GB if host doesn't supportLBA48
From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 04:23:04 EST
Alan Cox wrote:
On Iau, 2003-08-14 at 02:24, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
hwif->rqsize = old_hwif.rqsize;
- hwif->addressing = old_hwif.addressing;
+ hwif->no_lba48 = old_hwif.no_lba48;
This change is a bad idea. Its called "addressing" because that is what
it is about (see SATA and ATA specs). In future SATA addressing becomes
a 0,1,2 value because 48bits isnt enough, it may get more forms beyond
that.
Wow! Isn't that over 100 thousand TB? ;)
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