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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	kyle@canonical.com
Subject: Re: HPA patches
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:28:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070328212829.GA14263@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070328225431.69d0a3cc@the-village.bc.nu>

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:54:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> I wonder if the firmware is dying when we ask the disk to go zero sized
> rather than erroring politely. I'm not sure hth HPA sectors can come back
> as zero but we can be fairly sure 0 means "no HPA" in this case I guess ?

No, it seems to be looking at 0 because ata_read_native_max_address_ext 
returns 0 in the error case - the error that ata_exec_internal generates 
seems to be AC_ERR_HSM. Since 0 isn't > the size reported, we'll never 
try to resize it anyway, judging by ata_hpa_resize - that is, it seems 
to be the ata_read_native_max_address_ext call that breaks it.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-23 19:13 HPA patches Alan Cox
2007-03-23 18:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 20:08   ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 19:22     ` David Miller
2007-03-23 21:51       ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 20:03     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 21:47       ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 22:47         ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-13  3:16       ` Kyle McMartin
2007-04-13 10:56         ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 20:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-27  5:00   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-26 20:45 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-03-28  0:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28  0:16   ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28  1:16     ` ata_piix can't drive Mac hardware properly Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28  4:07       ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28  9:57   ` HPA patches Alan Cox
2007-03-28 20:08     ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 21:54       ` Alan Cox
2007-03-28 21:28         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-03-28 21:30         ` Kyle McMartin

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