Ed Schouten wrote:
* Takahashi Yoshihiro <[email protected]> wrote:
In article <[email protected]>
Alexander Motin <[email protected]> writes:
While preparing wrapping ATA(4) low-level drivers code into CAM SIM, I
would like to remove CHS addressing support to make code cleaner. CHS
addressing is officially declared obsoleted and replaced by LBA. Since
ATA/ATAPI-6 specification (October 2001) it is even no longer
documented.
Have anybody seen ATA drive without LBA support in last years?
Any other objections against removing it?
PC98 uses CHS addressing because the internal interface works for very
old HDD only, so I hope it remains if possible. But if you need a lot
of works for CHS support, I agree to remove it.
Wouldn't it be possible to keep the old ATA code in the tree for users
who want to use stuff like this?
I am going to make it switchable via kernel option, until new code
completely settle. It should be possible to keep CHS support in this
legacy mode.
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Alexander Motin
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