Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:49:20AM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
>> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>>
>>> Hum, it may be another issue here: 268435392 is not the "magic" number.
>>> And this drive seems to be an older revision, which shouldn't have the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> But this request is crossing the 128Gb barrier, this can be an issue
>>> (and I would understand a drive bailing on this). Carl, can you try the
>>> attached patch ?
>> I would, except I already hacked at wd.c and added the ID for my
>> drives for the LBA48 quirk, which seems to have worked.
> 
> Yes, this work, but this is not what will be commited because it may
> break things for others.

Understood.  The box is now almost ready for production use, and I
don't want to break it, can I install your patch and then test
easily without killing what I've installed on the machine? I can
break the mirror by pulling out one of the drives if there's any
risk?