kern/38376: Hitachi HDD need LBA48-QUIRK

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>Number:         38376
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Hitachi HDD need LBA48-QUIRK
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 06 13:55:00 +0000 2008
>Originator:     Martin Seibold
>Release:        4.0
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
NetBSD 4.0/i386 - i think all architectures are affected

>Description:
I use Raidframe mode 5 on Hitachi "Deskstar" 500GB disks via the satalink 
driver. While writing initial paririty on the disks i discovered that these 
discs have also problems with LBA48-addressing like the Seagates. I got "error 
reading fsbn 268435424 of 268435424 - 268435455". So i
changed my LBA48_TRESHHOLD to 0xfffffe0 instead the default 268435455 in my 
dev/ata/wd.c and built a new kernel. After that, everything seemed fine.
Then - for testing purposes - i manually faild one of my disks and
started reconstruction. After some time the reconstruction progress stopped 
with the same error message "error reading fsbn 268435424".

Finally i set my LBA48_TRESHHOLD to 0xfffffd0 and reconstruction finished.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to access the last sectors in front of the LBA48-area.
>Fix:
Someone should add HD* disks like my HDP725050 to the wd_quirk_table in 
ata/wd.clike the following:

This should work for E7K/P7K/T7K [2] "Deskstars": 
{   "HD[P-T][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][2-9][0-9]*",
          WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48 }

It would be nice to see an option for specifying LBA48_TRESHHOLD in kernel 
konfiguration file too.

Cave: Maybe there is another Problem in raidframe involved too, since changing 
the treshhold to 0xfffffe0 didn't work. _It had to be 0xfffffd0 when using 
raidframe_.