From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4 IDE PATCH] SanDisk is flash (fwd)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:43:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404142243.02599.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0404141115010.28974-100000@math.ut.ee>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-14 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 19:53 [2.4 IDE PATCH] SanDisk is flash (fwd) Adrian Bunk
2004-04-13 20:12 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-04-14 8:31 ` Meelis Roos
2004-04-14 20:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
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