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Andre, I totally disagree with you.
The burden of this issue will be on drive vendors, not the platform folks,
when a PC owner buys a disk to add on and it does not work. You want to add
this burden just because you want to have a moral battle with BIOS folks?
Give me a break!
The best thing to do is not require this field to be 0x0FFFFFFF, but rather
this is it's limit. Besides, who are we to say that if a drive can do above
this limit, that the 28-bit commands must actually be able to use exactly
this limit. I may want to limit use of 28-bit to say ZERO and force
everyone to use 48-bit commands (trying to be funny here, so lighten up).
BTW, I hope the new company is treating you well.
Regards, MKE.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andre Hedrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 11:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [temp t13] Re: Read Native Max in ATA/ATAPI-6
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Then that is a broken BIOS HOST...make them fix their problem and not us
clean up their mess.
Regards,
Andre Hedrick
CTO ASL, Inc.
Linux ATA Development
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Daniel J Colegrove wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:55:57 -0700
> From: Daniel J Colegrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: [temp t13] Read Native Max in ATA/ATAPI-6
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> In ATA/ATAPI-6 we put in a statement that for drives larger than
> 0FFFFFFFh logical blocks Read Native Max shall return 0FFFFFFFh
> blocks. This conflicts with the compatibility issue we noted earlier
> that some BIOS may add 1 to the number returned to get the maximum
> number of sectors, roll over, and have an error. Read Native Max
> should be changed to a maximum value of 0FFFFFFFh so devices
> can return 0FFFFFFEh, avoiding the problem.
>
> Best Regards,
> DC
>
> Dan Colegrove
> Senior Technical Staff Member
> Storage Technology Division
> IBM Corporation
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