Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/ata

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:11:50AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:51:34AM +1200, Dave Sainty wrote:
>> > If they don't have a crash-on-0xfffffff drive, but it is over 128GB in
>> > size and the controller can't do LBA48 then I guess they would only be
>> > able to access 2^32-1 sectors instead of 2^32.  Is that really a
>> > problem though?
>> 
>> It is if there is valuable data in the last sector.
>
> I guess that unless the partition actually ends in that sector it is
> unlikely to be useful to read sector 2^28-1 when sector 2^28 isn't
> readable.

And if the partition *does* end there, and you have data there and
don't appreciate having it suddenly vanish when you boot a new kernel?

Perry