Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272248AbTHNJSl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 05:18:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272249AbTHNJSl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 05:18:41 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-203-221-74-134.webone.com.au ([203.221.74.134]:41737 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272248AbTHNJSk (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 05:18:40 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3B53CC.8030209@cyberone.com.au> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:18:04 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030618 Debian/1.3.1-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Andries Brouwer , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: limit drive capacity to 137GB if host doesn't support LBA48 References: <200308140324.45524.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <1060851207.5535.15.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1060851207.5535.15.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 25 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? ;) - 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/