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

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

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

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        martin.seibold%yahoo.de@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/38376: Hitachi HDD need LBA48-QUIRK
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:47:41 +0200

 On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:30:04PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
 >  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 ?
 
 I think it's just another drive with the LBA48 bug. This should now be
 automatically detected and worked around by the kernel, but
 netbsd-4-0-RELEASE doesn't have all the needed code.
 
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