On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:44:00PM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> Speaking about LBA48 - does it need support from the IDE controller?

Not really. It needs a controller which isn't too smart, or a smart
controller which knows about LBA48

> 
> Will a drive larger than 128GB work on this?
> 
> cmdide0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
> cmdide0: CMD Technology PCI0646 (rev. 0x01)
> cmdide0: bus-master DMA support present
> cmdide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
> cmdide0: primary channel interrupting at isa irq 14
> atabus0 at cmdide0 channel 0
> cmdide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
> cmdide0: secondary channel interrupting at isa irq 15
> atabus1 at cmdide0 channel 1

Well, I don't know. You can ask on port-sparc64 if someone already tried
a LBA48 drive on a Ultra 5 or 10 built-in controller.

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