Re: [PATCH] HPA support: Revised patch

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Apr 09 2007 - 17:20:52 EST


On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 17:37:07 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:13:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > This one should fix the problems with slave devices and the Macintosh hang
>
> Better, but still not happy with ata_piix - I get the following:
>
> [ 10.972000] ata3.01: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 234441648, hpa_sectors = 16337840
> [ 10.972000] ata3.01: ATA-8: FUJITSU MHW2120BH, 00810013, max UDMA/100
> [ 10.972000] ata3.01: 234441648 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
> [ 10.980000] ata3.01: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 234441648, hpa_sectors = -1342616656
> [ 10.980000] ata3.01: Host Protected Area detected:
> [ 10.980000] current size: 234441648 sectors
> [ 10.980000] native size: -1342616656 sectors
> ^^^^^^^^^^^!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
>
> so I'm not especially keen on letting it reprogram stuff. With ahci it
> works fine. Still on a Macbook Pro - fuller logs below.

Please apply Tejun's fix for LBA48 data and try again. Hopefully its just
that which is causing the problem.

Alan
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