Re: kern/37251: Seagate disks larger than 900GB don't get caught by the force_lba48 quirk in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/wd.c

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

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:20:02AM +0000, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/37251; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow)
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: kern/37251: Seagate disks larger than 900GB don't get caught by 
> the force_lba48 quirk in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/wd.c
> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:17:20 -0800
> 
>       hello.  Now that Seagate has bought Maxtor, the Maxtor disks exhibit
>  the same bug as Seagate disks with regard to LBA48 addressing.
>       Although a general fix for such disks has been pulled up into -current
>  and 4.0, it doesn't look like a fix for such disks is in 3.x trees.  So,
>  here is a diff which covers the new Maxtor disks as well for those of you
>  still running 3.X systems.

The LBA48 bug detection code should also be in 3.x branches.
Maybe your system isn't recent enough ?

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