Re: Acer Labs IDE bug workaround

2010-11-06 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:40:00PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: Many older revisions of the Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE controller have a hardware bug that makes DMA fail for LBA48 commands fail. As a result accessing data on disks bigger than 137 GB beyond the 137 GB boundary will fail. A

Acer Labs IDE bug workaround

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Kettenis
Many older revisions of the Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE controller have a hardware bug that makes DMA fail for LBA48 commands fail. As a result accessing data on disks bigger than 137 GB beyond the 137 GB boundary will fail. A workaround for this is to fall back to PIO, but this is quite a bit