Subject: Re: IDE corruption w/ 48 Bit addressing

From: Felix Domke <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:23:53 +0100

> Users report harddisk corruption, and a quick test showed, that data
> written to 0x1800000000+x (LBA sector 0xC000000+x/512) is also written
> to x. (direct O_LARGEFILE-access to /dev/discs0/disc).
OK, update, this was a bit misleading:

when reading from the device, the upper 3 bytes aren't updated in the
right way, so the "previous content" (as specified in the ATA/6 specs)
seem to be invalid and contain, well, wrong content.

felix

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