On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:33:44AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:23:13AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Add support for ignoring the BIOS HPA result (off by default) and setting
> > the disk to the full available size unless already frozen.
> >
> > Tested with various platforms/disks and confirmed to work with the
> > Macintosh (which broke earlier) and ata_piix (breakage due to the LBA48
> > readback that Tejun fixed).
> >
> > For normal users this brings us, I believe, to feature parity with old IDE
> > (and of course more featured in some areas too).
> >
>
> Argh. I'm seeing a show stopper bug on sata_nv here. ata_exec_internal
> is MCE-ing on the READ_NATIVE_MAX_EXT command on both i386 and amd64, with
> top of Linus' tree + this patch. :(
>
Oddly, the command at least executes and doesn't MCE (but it's not at all
happy either) if I use ATA_PROT_PIO. I wonder if ATA_PROT_NODATA is buggered
on this sata_nv chip (Asus A8N-E).
Weird...
Kyle
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