Re: WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48

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

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 03:20:26AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > > I saw a Windows driver simply does
> > > 
> > > if (drive supports LBA48)
> > >   use LBA48 transfer;
> > > else if (drive supports LBA)
> > >   use LBA28 transfer;
> > > else
> > >   use CHS transfer;
> > 
> > But windows doesn't try to support as much hardware as we do :)
> 
> I wonder what should we do in wdc driver in bootloader..
> (wd.c and wdc.c in sys/arch/cobalt/stand/boot/)

Could we assume that the boot partition is within the first 128Gb ?
Also, I guess the IDE controller in cobalt is well know ?
or can it boot from add-on IDE adapters too ?

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