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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:24:06 +0100 (CET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson)
Cc:        tugrul@ianai.BlackSun.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New ata driver failure on a ISA machine.
Message-ID:  <199903040924.KAA89095@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19990304004451.A82372@dan.emsphone.com> from Dan Nelson at "Mar 4, 1999  0:44:51 am"

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It seems Dan Nelson wrote:

>  wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <IBM-H2344-A4>, multi-block-4, sleep-hack
>  wd0: 328MB (672525 sectors), 915 cyls, 15 heads, 49 S/T, 512 B/S

>ad0 probe output:
>
>  ad0: <IBM-H2344-A4/G4I_A8C0> ATA-? disk at ata0 as master
>  ad0: 549280MB (1124925450 sectors), 915 cyls, 15 heads, 49 S/T, 512 B/S
>  ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue

>What I find fascinating is the LBAsize for the total # of sectors
>reported by the new driver code.  1124925450 is 0x430D000A.  The
>correct amount, 672525, is 0x000A430D.  Sounds like a word-swapping
>problem somewhere.  Maybe LBAsize should only be used if necessary?

I see two problems here, one is that unless it was you that specified
4 secs/intr in the wd case (what flags do you use), there is something
fishy there. There is is just wonderfull, why complain about that :)
Seriouly thats a bug, fix is in next update...

-Søren



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