From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Robert Cardell <rbt@mtlb.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trivial, IDE geometry fix / defconfig changes
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 01:41:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604234146.GA7255@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020604215617.A288@garfield.mtlb.co.uk>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:56:17PM +0100, Robert Cardell wrote:
> --- ide-disk.c.old Tue Jun 4 21:09:10 2002
> +++ ide-disk.c Tue Jun 4 21:09:44 2002
> @@ -929,9 +929,9 @@
>
> if (id->cfs_enable_2 & 0x0400) {
> capacity_2 = id->lba_capacity_2;
> - drive->cyl = (unsigned int) capacity_2 / (drive->head * drive->sect);
> drive->head = drive->bios_head = 255;
> drive->sect = drive->bios_sect = 63;
> + drive->cyl = (unsigned int) capacity_2 / (drive->head * drive->sect);
> drive->select.b.lba = 1;
> set_max_ext = idedisk_read_native_max_address_ext(drive);
> if (set_max_ext > capacity_2) {
>
Yes, let me confirm: this patch is required.
I sent it to the list on 10 Feb 2002 ("[PATCH] tiny IDE fixes"); apparently
nobody picked it up, or at least it didnt reach 2.4.19-pre9 yet.
That patch also removed some dead code.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-04 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-04 20:56 [PATCH] Trivial, IDE geometry fix / defconfig changes Robert Cardell
2002-06-04 23:41 ` Guest section DW [this message]
2002-06-05 13:18 ` Rusty Russell
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2002-06-04 21:22 Rik van Riel
2002-06-04 21:49 ` Robert Cardell
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