Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:17:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:17:44 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:46087 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:17:43 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:24:25 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ide-problem still with 2.4.21-pre5-ac1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 28 On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > why its not honouring PTBL values in his case apparently > > The disk capacity code foolishly sets heads to 255, and then > ide_xlate_1024 decides that we already have chosen a translation, > so that it does not have to figure out what translation to use. > > Andries [ code snipped ] Since you identify this as the problem, do you propose a solution? A flag indicating that default values are in place, perhaps? Better checks to ensure that if LBA is used the geometry is forced sane in some way? I don't think special case code is desirable in this case, at least beyond checking a flag if that's what's needed. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/