Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 17:06:35 EST


On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 17:34, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Might not be a bad idea, drive->address_mode is a heck of a lot more to
> the point. I'll do a swipe of this tomorrow, if no one beats me to it.

We don't know if in the future drives will support some random mask of modes.
Would

        drive->lba48
        drive->lba96
        drive->..

be safer ?

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