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

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

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:41:48PM +0000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: bouyer
> Date:         Sun Sep 16 18:41:48 UTC 2007
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/sys/dev/ata: wd.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Add a workaround for drives with the LBA48 bug:
> if we get a "ID not found" error for a transfer crossing LBA48_THRESHOLD,
> and the drive is larger than 128GB, automatically add WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48
> to the drive's quirks and retry the transfers.
> Hopefully this will obsolete the WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48 quirk list ...

Did I remember something about a disk that managed to write to sector zero?
In which case should we be using LBA48 for any transfer that crosses the
boundary regardless as to any previous failure?

        David

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