Re: WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48

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

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:50:04PM +0100, Michael van Elst wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:38:35PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:31:34PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > 
> > > Western Digital brings new disks to the market which
> > > use 4KByte sectors instead of 512 byte.
> > 
> > This problem has also been raised a long time ago, with magneto-optical
> > devices with 1k sectors. I think we still don't handle this
> > (and it's not a problem limited to the ata drivers, the upper levels
> > are affected too)
> 
> Those drives still present 512 byte 'logical sectors' to the host.

No, not all of them I think. We got PRs in the GNATS database about
this for a long time.

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