Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/ata
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: source-changes
Date: 09/16/2007 22:43:19
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:41:48PM +0000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	bouyer
> Date:		Sun Sep 16 18:41:48 UTC 2007
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/sys/dev/ata: wd.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Add a workaround for drives with the LBA48 bug:
> if we get a "ID not found" error for a transfer crossing LBA48_THRESHOLD,
> and the drive is larger than 128GB, automatically add WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48
> to the drive's quirks and retry the transfers.
> Hopefully this will obsolete the WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48 quirk list ...

Did I remember something about a disk that managed to write to sector zero?
In which case should we be using LBA48 for any transfer that crosses the
boundary regardless as to any previous failure?

	David

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