Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ide: limit drive capacity to 137GB if host doesn't support LBA48 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 14 Aug 2003 12:03:27 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2003-08-14 at 10:18, Nick Piggin wrote > >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? ;)
It depends how they are used and its more about message formats. LBA48 is a pretty evil hack based on keeping some compatibility by writing some registers twice and having the drive know about it.
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