Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
08 May 2003 23:06:35 +0100

On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 17:34, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Might not be a bad idea, drive->address_mode is a heck of a lot more to
> the point. I'll do a swipe of this tomorrow, if no one beats me to it.

We don't know if in the future drives will support some random mask of modes.
Would

drive->lba48
drive->lba96
drive->..

be safer ?

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