Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422713AbWJDSDt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:03:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422714AbWJDSDt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:03:49 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:42174 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422713AbWJDSDr (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:03:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4523F77B.1030908@ru.mvista.com> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:03:39 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: What's in libata-dev.git References: <20060911132250.GA5178@havoc.gtf.org> <45056627.7030202@ru.mvista.com> <4523F602.6070608@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4523F602.6070608@rtr.ca> 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: 1438 Lines: 41 Hello. Mark Lord wrote: >>> [ATA] Increase lba48 max-sectors from 200 to 256. >> So was it for LBA28 or for LBA48? >> As for LBA28, it might be quite dangerous. Particularly, I know >> that IBM drives used to mistreated 256 as 0 in the past (bumped into >> that on a 8-year old drive which is still alive though). > .. >> The exact model was IBM DHEA-34331. > I've been travelling for the past month, so pardon the late tuning in here. > I've *never* encountered a drive that had this problem. > Controllers, yes, and those are easily dealt with in the chipset drivers. > > But never drives. Not since 1992 when I first took up Linux IDE stuff. > > I have some 7-year old IBM drives here, and they certainly don't have > this problem either (but they do have working TCQ etc..). That was 8-year old Ultra33 drive, what TCQ? :-) > I suspect Sergei simply had a bad controller card at the time. I can hardly imagine the reason why a PCI IDE controller (that was something like VT82C586 I think) would need to mess with the sector count reg. in PIO mode and return "command aborted" in the error reg... That was the exact sympthom IIRC. > Cheers WBR, Sergei - 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/