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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: improve HPA error handling
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:25:37 -0400
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Tejun Heo wrote:
> There's no point in retrying and eventually failing device detection
> when the device rejects READ_NATIVE_MAX[_EXT].  Disable HPA unlocking
> if READ_NATIVE_MAX[_EXT] is rejected as done when SET_MAX[_EXT] is
> rejected.
> 
> This allows some old drives to work even if they aren't blacklisted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/ata/libata-core.c |    8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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