Re: [2.4 IDE PATCH] SanDisk is flash (fwd)

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Wednesday 14 of April 2004 10:31, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > Does this mean that CF test fail or that SunDisk is SanDisk now?
>
> Just that SunDisk is now SanDisk. The patch was developed in 2.4 to
> quieten flash disk detection messages. The important part was about host
> protected area detection that is already different in 2.6 (*). In
> addition, the name change was noticed and fixed. It resulted in
> different display (not ATA but CFA) and told the ide layer that the disk
> does not have door locking but I don't know whether it actually changes
> some important behaviour.

Ok, so this patch is indeed needed.

> (*) The host protected area fix for 2.4 was to do
> idedisk_read_native_max_address(drive) only when
> idedisk_supports_host_protected_area(drive) was true. By my quick look
> it seemed that 2.6 already does this check in init_idedisk_capacity()
> and 2.6 does not need the other patch - am I right here?

Yes.

Cheers,
Bartlomiej

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