> > I'd rather know what is going on here. A drive can legitimately > > support LBA48 and HPA and refuse READ_NATIVE_MAX_EXT. > > READ_NATIVE_MAX_EXT is mandatory if HPA && LBA48, no? No - and we hit this specific case in old IDE with some Maxtor drives. > Haven't tried that but the problem is that the drive times out > READ_NATIVE_MAX_EXT so it doesn't really matter whether the drive > succeeds READ_NATIVE_MAX or not. For more detail, please read the > following thread. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/21322 Thanks will do: > device reports in words 85-87 and 120, which libata currently doesn't > do. Are we leaving this out intentionally (for broken devices) or just > did we just miss it? We missed it. I assume the drive in the blacklist sets it correctly however ? 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
