Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/ata

[Dave Sainty <dave%dtsp.co.nz@localhost>]

Dave Sainty writes:

> If they don't have a crash-on-0xfffffff drive, but it is over 128GB
> in size and the controller can't do LBA48 then I guess they would
> only be able to access 2^32-1 sectors instead of 2^32.  Is that
> really a problem though?
> 
> If we can detect the controllers that can't do LBA48 we can allow them
> to try a LBA32 access to 0xfffffff instead.  Though we also know that
> some drives/systems would hang at that point.

I mean LBA28 and 2^28.