On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 23a5
>
>
> (I wonder whether this is a bug. The way I read the ATA-5 spec
> it should be possible to do SET_MAX_ADDRESS to the address
> gotten back from READ_NATIVE_MAX_ADDRESS.)
>
> A side effect of SET_MAX_ADDRESS is that the current geometry
> is reset to 16383/16/63.
I gather that it is an LBA exclusive, but I will have to ask.
Remember that these calls are primarily workarounds for MS....
MS requires LBA..........
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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