Alan wrote:
>>> Is your IDE controller LBA48 capable ?
>> Well TBH I have no contoller. As I said I am using an embedded ARM board.
>> The HDD is connected via a FPGA. The internal HDD registers simply memory
>> mapped. Works fine. Usually. By now we seem to have trouble with that
>> Seagate drive...
> 
> The reason I ask is that the stuff which is going wrong is the stuff
> which requires two fetches from the drive registers. Could that be a
> caching bug (eg caching it, prefetching and thus reading a register too
> many times etc) - it seems more likely than the drive given that nobody
> else is seeing anything like this.

Hmm. Don't think so. Since the use of ioremap() I think the MMU treats the
area as none-cacheable, right?

Steven
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