Re: IDE 48 bit addressing causes data corruption

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
18 Mar 2003 19:37:15 +0000


On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 18:20, Felix Domke wrote:
> Why does a certain IDE controller not support LBA48?

In DMA mode some of them have state machines that know too much.
The double pump of the control registers confuses them.

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