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 10:32:43 +0900 Message-ID: <4684613B.8080607@gmail.com> References: <4683DCD3.1040303@gmail.com> <4683F4CD.2090106@rtr.ca> <4683F51C.3060404@garzik.org> <4683F5B1.7090507@gmail.com> <4683F626.9040401@garzik.org> <46845D2E.4050102@rtr.ca> 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 ([64.233.162.237]:21183 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764132AbXF2Bcu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:32:50 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so297599nze for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:32:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46845D2E.4050102@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Mark Lord wrote: > I wonder if PIO works for LBA48 on that chipset (very, *very* likely). HOB register access doesn't work (even get native max address is broken). > Maybe just fall back to PIO for an LBA48 drive. > Or even better, fall back to PIO only for sectors beyond 128GB. > > ??? > > Or wait for a more stable driver.. I don't really think the driver is useful in its current state. Maybe we should just mark it BROKEN. I don't think I'm gonna work on it without further information and initio is almost impossible to contact. -- tejun