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From: James Finnie <jf1@IMERGE.co.uk>
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       James Finnie <jf1@IMERGE.co.uk>
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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
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> 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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