From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] libata: implement BROKEN_HPA horkage and apply to affected drives Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:21:19 +0900 Message-ID: <46C3441F.4010806@gmail.com> References: <20070815180508.GD21623@htj.dyndns.org> <20070815180721.GF21623@htj.dyndns.org> <20070815192257.126fa84b@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:62146 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765327AbXHOSV0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:21:26 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so6262wah for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:21:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070815192257.126fa84b@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >> + { "HDS724040KLSA80", "KFAOA20N", ATA_HORKAGE_BROKEN_HPA, }, >> + { "WDC WD3200JD-00KLB0", "WD-WCAMR1130137", ATA_HORKAGE_BROKEN_HPA }, >> + { "WDC WD2500JD-00HBB0", "WD-WMAL71490727", ATA_HORKAGE_BROKEN_HPA }, > > > I'm still a little bothered that we haven't seen these reported with old > IDE (unlike the off by one which was there once you knew where to look). > Guess they've simply not shown up as they are all SATA Dunno much about HDS but both WDCs are fairly new ones. The reporter of bug 8888 confirmed the problem on via and sil controllers, so it's fairly certain that it's a drive firmware bug. Weird. -- tejun