Re: kern/37251: Seagate disks larger than 900GB don't get caught by the force_lba48 quirk in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/wd.c

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/37251; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: jnemeth%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/37251: Seagate disks larger than 900GB don't get caught by 
the force_lba48 quirk in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/wd.c
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:54:24 +0100

 On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:20:02AM +0000, Brian Buhrow wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/37251; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow)
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost
 > Subject: Re: kern/37251: Seagate disks larger than 900GB don't get caught by 
 > the force_lba48 quirk in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/wd.c
 > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:17:20 -0800
 > 
 >      hello.  Now that Seagate has bought Maxtor, the Maxtor disks exhibit
 >  the same bug as Seagate disks with regard to LBA48 addressing.
 >      Although a general fix for such disks has been pulled up into -current
 >  and 4.0, it doesn't look like a fix for such disks is in 3.x trees.  So,
 >  here is a diff which covers the new Maxtor disks as well for those of you
 >  still running 3.X systems.
 
 The LBA48 bug detection code should also be in 3.x branches.
 Maybe your system isn't recent enough ?
 
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