From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc6] sata_inic162x: add big fat warning about broken LBA48 support
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:27:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4683E171.1090306@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87f94c370706280914v7b52a7d7k31d323b9d88da19b@mail.gmail.com>
Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Does it simply fail? Or does it corrupt?
>
> In my Windows experience, if you try to write data past ~128GiB and
> you don't have LBA48 support you get a wraparound effect that causes
> corruption of the data below ~128GiB. I've seen it happen several
> times under Win2K in particular.
It will probably wrap and corrupt data. The driver is already marked
HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. Do you think we need bigger hammer?
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-28 16:07 [PATCH 2.6.22-rc6] sata_inic162x: add big fat warning about broken LBA48 support Tejun Heo
2007-06-28 16:14 ` Greg Freemyer
2007-06-28 16:27 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2007-06-28 16:35 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-28 16:59 ` Greg Freemyer
2007-06-28 17:50 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-28 17:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-28 17:53 ` Tejun Heo
2007-06-28 17:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-29 1:15 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-29 1:32 ` Tejun Heo
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