Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 11:54:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 11:54:55 -0400 Received: from mailrelay.nefonline.de ([212.114.153.196]:4109 "EHLO mailrelay.nefonline.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 11:54:54 -0400 Message-Id: <200208041558.RAA32583@myway.myway.de> From: "Daniela Engert" To: "Alan Cox" , "alien.ant@ntlworld.com" Cc: "Alex Davis" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 17:58:23 +0200 (CDT) Reply-To: "Daniela Engert" X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2200 for OS/2 Warp 4.05 In-Reply-To: <1028480553.14195.35.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 2.4.19 IDE Partition Check issue Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1024 Lines: 26 On 04 Aug 2002 18:02:33 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 16:16, alien.ant@ntlworld.com wrote: >> Alan - I'm wondering if this issue is related to Maxtor drives? All the >> reports I have seen of this problem have featured drives from this >> manufacturer. >The ALi hang may well be sort of this. If its what Andre thinks then its >lack of support for LBA48 on ALi interface hardware (or at least for the >documentation we currently have on how to program it). If so -ac2 should >sort that one out ALi IDE controllers up to revision C4h don't support LBA48 in DMA mode, later revisions can do both PIO and DMA with LBA48 addressing. Check out ALi's Windows drivers to see how the manufacturer itself worked around this problem (it's kinda obvious). Ciao, Dani - 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/