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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:50:50 -0700, Gary Laatsch wrote: >This message is from the T13 list server. >Question to all the drive folks....... >There seems to be a fuzzy area about use of the 48-bit >addressing supported bit in the IDENTIFY DATA (bit 10 of WORD >83). I guess some are setting this bit regardless of the drive >capacity and some are only setting it if the capacity is over >137GB. I am hearing "rumors" that this might be creating some >driver issues because of the SET MAX and SET MAX EXT commands. Even a 64MB CF device could (in theory) claim to support 48-bit LBA. Properly designed and tested drivers should have no problems with any sized device that claims support of 48-bit LBA. *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
