> > 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. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html