Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:18:04 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ide: limit drive capacity to 137GB if host doesn't support LBA48 |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>On Iau, 2003-08-14 at 02:24, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> hwif->rqsize = old_hwif.rqsize; >>- hwif->addressing = old_hwif.addressing; >>+ hwif->no_lba48 = old_hwif.no_lba48; >> > >This change is a bad idea. Its called "addressing" because that is what >it is about (see SATA and ATA specs). In future SATA addressing becomes >a 0,1,2 value because 48bits isnt enough, it may get more forms beyond >that. >
Wow! Isn't that over 100 thousand TB? ;)
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