Re: LBA48 bug and the wd_quirk_table in wd.c for 2.5" drives

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:52:27PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:45:03PM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:29:08PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:41:35PM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > 
> > > > wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <ST9250421AS>
> > [..]
> > 
> > > What NetBSD version is it ?
> > 
> > -current as of two weeks ago.
> > 
> > > I added generic code to detect this issue on 2007/09/16, and it was pulled
> > > up to release branches on 2007/10/15 ...
> > 
> > Aehm, how would a ST _9_ drive match a ST _3_ quirk?
> 
> I didn't expect it to match an entry in the quirk table; just that the
> kernel notice the issue and keep working
> 
> > 
> > > Did your kernel report a "Id not found" error, or something else ?
> > 
> > It reported something about a LBA48 bug, so it should work later on.
> 
> OK, that what is expected then.

I commented out the explicit quirk list, and all is working happily with
disks which matched that list, i.e., the generic code works well...

Cheers,

Patrick