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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Ville Herva <vherva@twilight.cs.hut.fi>,
	Martin Bene <martin.bene@icomedias.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb]
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:38:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020428013806.A8543@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020427173913.A7293@ucw.cz> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10204271434490.15403-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:36:07PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 03:55:51PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 12:16:06PM +0200, you [Martin Bene] wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > IDE: The kernel IDE driver needs to support 48-bit addresseing to support
> > > > 160GB.
> > > > 
> > > > (...) however, you can do something about the linux ATA driver: code
> > > > is in the 2.4.19-pre tree, it went in with 2.4.19-pre3.
> > > 
> > > But which IDE controllers support 48-bit addressing? Not all of them?
> > 
> > ALL IDE controllers support 48-bit addressing. Actually, they don't need
> > to know about it.
> 
> Sorry this is not correct, I have a list that fail.

Care to bless the mailing-list with the names of the chipsets that have
trouble?

> However I need to compose a test to revoke their 48-bit operations
> regardless if the device supports.

If you have a list, then the test is quite easy, ain't it?

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-27 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-27 10:16 AW: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb Martin Bene
2002-04-27 12:55 ` 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb] Ville Herva
2002-04-27 13:51   ` Kevin Krieser
2002-04-27 21:33     ` Andre Hedrick
     [not found]   ` <NDBBLFLJADKDMBPPNBALAEHKIEAA.kkrieser_list@footballmail.co m>
2002-04-27 15:02     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-27 15:42       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-27 15:50       ` Daniela Engert
2002-05-03  0:48         ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-29 11:06       ` Rogier Wolff
2002-04-29 13:57         ` Mike Dresser
2002-04-27 15:39   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-27 21:36     ` Andre Hedrick
2002-04-27 23:38       ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-27 15:33 AW: " Martin Bene
2002-04-27 22:32 ` Kevin Krieser

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