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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:28:12 +0000 From: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: avl@...ic.at Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: possible bug in ide-disk.c (2.6.18.2 but also older) > While I used Knoppix to determine the age of the bug, it does also > appear with a plain vanilla 2.6.18.2 kernel from www.kernel.org. > The ChangeLog for 2.6.18.3 also doesn't mention ide-disk. The old IDE layer does not currently have a maintainer. > I must admit, I don't know about GPT. My system's bios > is old enough to not know about EFI, and the partition-scheme > on that harddisk dates back quite a few years, so it's unlikely > to be anything than the good ol' MBR. The reason I ask is that they put the partition in the last sector which means a block read of the last sector goes off the end of the disk and certainly used to be mishandled by the IDE code. > Alternatively, a kernel-option to manually disable hpa-checking > would be a good step to solve the problem even for drives like mine. It's a compile time option. If you don't have GPT partitioning support then the system ought to behave correctly. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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