Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:11:29 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for WD Advanced Format disks Message-ID: <4C6222F1.8090205@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20100810225012.A8CE35B67@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <86wrry1hwv.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20100810184853.21FED5B5A@mail.bitblocks.com> <86mxsunpk6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20100810225012.A8CE35B67@mail.bitblocks.com>
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Yes, that should be it! > After poking around some, it seems ATA/ATAPI-7 Identify > Device word 106 bit 13 is set to 1 and bits 0-3 are set to 3 > (for 2^3 or 8 LBAs per sector) for a 4KB sector size (pin 7-8 > jumper on a WD AF disks presumably changes this setting to > 0,0). See page 121 of Atapi-7 volume 1 (google for > ata-atapi-7.pdf). > > Hopefully this helps in whatever `clean solution' you are > looking for? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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