From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Possible regression of LBA48 support for piix Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:03:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4B2A1008.9070202@garzik.org> References: <19241.63911.160765.909812@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:54844 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764373AbZLQLDk (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:03:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Romain Kubany Cc: Mikael Pettersson , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" On 12/17/2009 05:04 AM, Romain Kubany wrote: > Ok, thanks for the prompt reply and the notice for the cc: :) > I'm using libata and ata_piix now. > My disk is seen as "sda" and a lshw is reporting the controler as using "ata_piix" : > > # lshw -c STORAGE > *-ide > description: IDE interface > product: 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE > vendor: Intel Corporation > physical id: 7.1 > bus info: pci@0000:00:07.1 > logical name: scsi0 > logical name: scsi1 > version: 01 > width: 32 bits > clock: 33MHz > capabilities: ide bus_master emulated > configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 > > But fdisk always recognize the disk as 136.8Gb : > > # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 136.8 GB, 136899993600 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 265260 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xd7267427 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 204 102815+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 205 2236 1024128 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda3 2237 20805 9358776 83 Linux > > Here is the new kernel config file : http://pastebin.com/f65fd472b I would definitely be interested in seeing the 'dmesg' output for libata, and results from a more recent kernel. Jeff