Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262353AbUCaS6b (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:58:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262345AbUCaS6a (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:58:30 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:36545 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262311AbUCaS62 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:58:28 -0500 Message-ID: <406B14C1.8000708@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:58:09 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andries Brouwer CC: Andre Hedrick , Geert Uytterhoeven , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Lionel Bergeret , JunHyeok Heo , Linux Kernel Development , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bogus LBA48 drives References: <20040331183410.GA3796@pclin040.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040331183410.GA3796@pclin040.win.tue.nl> 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: 830 Lines: 23 Andries Brouwer wrote: > Hmm. I read in my copy of ATA7: > > 6.16.55 Words (103:100): Maximum user LBA for 48-bit Address feature set > Words (103:100) contain a value that is one greater than the maximum LBA > in user accessable space when the 48-bit Addressing feature set is supported. > The maximum value that shall be placed in this field is 0000FFFFFFFFFFFFh. > Support of these words is mandatory if the 48-bit Address feature set is supported. > > Do you read differently? The errata is, one needs to check that field for zero, and use the other one if so... Jeff - 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/