From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: HPA support Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:15:23 -0400 Message-ID: <46251CCB.9040906@pobox.com> References: <20070411002313.29069ca5@the-village.bc.nu> <20070417184139.GB11211@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:42148 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030866AbXDQTP2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:15:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070417184139.GB11211@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Jones Cc: Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jkeating@redhat.com 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? Try booting with sata_nv module parameter 'adma' set to zero, does that fix the problem? Jeff