Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc6] sata_inic162x: add big fat warning about broken LBA48 support

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Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Does it simply fail?  Or does it corrupt?
> 
> In my Windows experience, if you try to write data past ~128GiB and
> you don't have LBA48 support you get a wraparound effect that causes
> corruption of the data below ~128GiB.  I've seen it happen several
> times under Win2K in particular.

It will probably wrap and corrupt data.  The driver is already marked
HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL.  Do you think we need bigger hammer?

-- 
tejun
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