> > 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 Ok the report in that thread is different. The offending Maxtor simply aborts the read_native_max_ext - 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