Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 May 2003 09:06:23 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage |
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On Thu, May 08 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 17:34, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Might not be a bad idea, drive->address_mode is a heck of a lot more to > > the point. I'll do a swipe of this tomorrow, if no one beats me to it. > > We don't know if in the future drives will support some random mask of modes. > Would > > drive->lba48 > drive->lba96 > drive->.. > > be safer ?
I had the same thought yesterday, that just because a device does lba89 does not need it supports all of the lower modes. How about just using the drive->address_mode as a supported field of modes?
if (drive->address_mode & IDE_LBA48) lba48 = 1;
-- Jens Axboe
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