Re: kern/38376: Hitachi HDD need LBA48-QUIRK

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38376; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/38376: Hitachi HDD need LBA48-QUIRK
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:24:23 +0100

 On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:55:00PM +0000, martin.seibold%yahoo.de@localhost 
wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       Hitachi HDD need LBA48-QUIRK
 > 
 > 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_.
 
 Is the actual problem that multi-sector transfers that cross the LBA48
 boundary fail?
 In which case shouldn't the code just look at the 'sector+count'
 when deciding whether to use LBA48 ?
 
        David
 
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