From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: HPA support Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:30:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20070417193057.GB22688@redhat.com> References: <20070411002313.29069ca5@the-village.bc.nu> <20070417184139.GB11211@redhat.com> <46251CCB.9040906@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43457 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031155AbXDQTdB (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:33:01 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46251CCB.9040906@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jkeating@redhat.com On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:15:23PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:23:13AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox > > > > > > Add support for ignoring the BIOS HPA result (off by default) and setting > > > the disk to the full available size unless already frozen. > > > > > > Tested with various platforms/disks and confirmed to work with the > > > Macintosh (which broke earlier) and ata_piix (breakage due to the LBA48 > > > readback that Tejun fixed). > > > > > > For normal users this brings us, I believe, to feature parity with old IDE > > > (and of course more featured in some areas too). > > > > This is broken horribly on nvidia chipsets.. > > I think this is what Kyle reported? Yeah sounds like it. Kyle just pointed out the discussion that followed, which for some reason linux-ide neglected to send me. I seem to have fallen off the list a few weeks back, as looking at the archives shows a bunch of ata related mails I don't recall ever seeing before. > Try booting with sata_nv module > parameter 'adma' set to zero, does that fix the problem? jesse, wanna give that a shot? booting with the installer with sata_nv.adma=0 should do the trick. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk