From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo 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 Message-ID: <4683E171.1090306@gmail.com> References: <4683DCD3.1040303@gmail.com> <87f94c370706280914v7b52a7d7k31d323b9d88da19b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.226]:29528 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756624AbXF1Q1f (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:27:35 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so152882nze for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:27:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87f94c370706280914v7b52a7d7k31d323b9d88da19b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Freemyer Cc: Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" 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