On 1/30/07, Steven Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hda: Host Protected Area detected. > current capacity is 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) > native capacity is 185074430006016 sectors (94758108163 MB) > hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > ide: failed opcode was: 0x37 > hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63 > > My quetsions are: > > 1. what's that 185074430006016 sectors native capacity about?Sectors written in hex: current capacity is 78140160 sectors would be 0x000004A85300 native capacity is 185074430006016 sectors would be 0xA852FFA85300
0x37 is READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT, which is the 48-bit version of the command to figure out how big the drive "really" is. It appears that model of drive indicated support for 48-bit commands, but then aborted the 48-bit version of READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS. Is it really a 40GB drive? --eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
