Alan Cox wrote: >>> 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 I'll resend sans ata_id_has_hpa() change. Does that sound okay? I don't really think we can do anything other than blacklisting it. -- tejun - 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