Hello, Bob Stewart wrote: > Is there an easy way to tell whether the command was sent as > LBA48, say, in the driver's bmdma_start function or even in the > hardreset function after the fact? One of my tests was using a 64 > sector limit, with pretty much the same results. I always test against > the same file, and the results, including the number of timeouts, are > different from test to test.
The driver is seriously broken regarding LBA48 support. The timeout goes away if max_sectors is decreased to ATA_MAX_SECTORS - 1, doh. But both the reading and writing are seriously broken. I can't tell whether they end up in the wrong sectors or garbage is transferred to/from the right sectors. I'm really close to marking this device broken or we'll need to implement a mechanism to veto LBA48 device from LLD (may be negative return from ->dev_config). Reading the sunix driver, I can't find any relevant workaround. It never seems to initialize ctl address. I'm curious whether the sunix driver can do LBA48. Bob, are you interested in testing this? Thanks. -- tejun - 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
