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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: 2.6.10 - Still mishandles volumes without geometry data
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:48:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e041228124878cb6e2a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1104155840.20898.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:57:20 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> An IDE device can choose not to report geometry. In this situation the
> base 2.6 kernel tries to verify the LBA data despite having nothing to
> validate it against and prints it out (although now only as pr_debug).
> 
> This patch fixes these problems and has in various forms been in
> 2.6.9-ac and Fedora Core for a considerable time now
> 
> diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.10/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
> --- linux.vanilla-2.6.10/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c 2004-12-25 21:15:34.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c 2004-12-26 21:55:43.084714368 +0000
> @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@
>  {
>         unsigned long lba_sects, chs_sects, head, tail;
> 
> +       /* No non-LBA info .. so valid! */
> +       if (id->cyls == 0)
> +               return 1;
> +
>         /*
>          * The ATA spec tells large drives to return
>          * C/H/S = 16383/16/63 independent of their size.
> @@ -201,7 +205,8 @@
>                 head  = track % drive->head;
>                 cyl   = track / drive->head;
> 
> -               pr_debug("%s: CHS=%u/%u/%u\n", drive->name, cyl, head, sect);
> +               if(drive->bios_cyl)
> +                       pr_debug("%s: CHS=%u/%u/%u\n", drive->name, cyl, head, sect);
> 
>                 hwif->OUTB(0x00, IDE_FEATURE_REG);
>                 hwif->OUTB(nsectors.b.low, IDE_NSECTOR_REG);

Shouldn't this check be around printk in idedisk_setup() instead?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-28 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-27 13:57 PATCH: 2.6.10 - Still mishandles volumes without geometry data Alan Cox
2004-12-28 20:48 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2004-12-28 22:03   ` Alan Cox
2004-12-28 22:08   ` Alan Cox
2004-12-29  2:52     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-29 14:36       ` Alan Cox
2004-12-29 19:28         ` Andries Brouwer

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