Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [2.4 IDE PATCH] SanDisk is flash (fwd) | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:43:02 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 14 of April 2004 10:31, Meelis Roos wrote: > > Does this mean that CF test fail or that SunDisk is SanDisk now? > > Just that SunDisk is now SanDisk. The patch was developed in 2.4 to > quieten flash disk detection messages. The important part was about host > protected area detection that is already different in 2.6 (*). In > addition, the name change was noticed and fixed. It resulted in > different display (not ATA but CFA) and told the ide layer that the disk > does not have door locking but I don't know whether it actually changes > some important behaviour.
Ok, so this patch is indeed needed.
> (*) The host protected area fix for 2.4 was to do > idedisk_read_native_max_address(drive) only when > idedisk_supports_host_protected_area(drive) was true. By my quick look > it seemed that 2.6 already does this check in init_idedisk_capacity() > and 2.6 does not need the other patch - am I right here?
Yes.
Cheers, Bartlomiej
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