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 - 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
