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Re: WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48



bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) writes:

>Hum, as we have the ATA major number in IDENTIFY, maybe we could make
>LBA48_THRESHOLD dependant on the ATA revision reported by the drive ?

Hmm, does ATA-5 support LBA48? In my draft it is not mentioned,
so to me ATA-5 (or older) devices are automatically not subject
to this decisison as you can only use LBA28.

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