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> Why is this discussion needed? Support for LBA48 has *NOTHING* to do > with the capacity of the device. A device with only 10 sectors can > support CHS, LBA28 *_AND_* *_LBA48_*. What is the problem? I don't have my notes on it since I left my notebooks at my previous employer. My memory is some of the device manufacturers handled "Set Max" type commands differently and also interpreted the spec a differently on the contents of the mentioned bits and words in ID Device. The company I worked for at the time was developing some drivers and was seeing inconsistencies. I talked with others at one of the T13 meetings and found they were seeing similar things. Anyway, may be a moot issue today. I know it was enough at the time that it did make mention in the document and section (e03107r0 sec. 3.1) I referred to in my previous post. Maybe Mukesh remembers or can answer whether or not it is still an outstanding issue. I believe he picked up the PARTIES-2 after myself and Ron Salmon left. Gary Laatsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hale Landis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ATA T13 Reflector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [t13] 48-bit LBA: Purpose of ID Word 86, bit 10 (vs ID 83, bit 10) > This message is from the T13 list server. > > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:27:28 -0800, Gary Laatsch wrote: > >This message is from the T13 list server. > >We were going to address this stuff (or at least some of it) as part of > >the PARTIES-2 document. There were issues raised a year and 1/2 ago about > >48 bit mode and how certain devices indicated 48 bit supported and enabled > >(words 83 and 86 bit 10) even though they were less than 137GB and which > >commands should be used and what the contents of word 100-103 should be, > >etc. etc. > > Why is this discussion needed? Support for LBA48 has *NOTHING* to do > with the capacity of the device. A device with only 10 sectors can > support CHS, LBA28 *_AND_* *_LBA48_*. What is the problem? > > Hale > > > > *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com *** > > >
