Re: 2.4.20-pre2-ac5 Promise PDC20269

[Andre Hedrick]

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
PCI: Enabling device 00:13.0 (0005 -> 0007)
HPT366: chipset revision 1
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
HPT366: chipset revision 1
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: DupliDisk IDE RAID-1 Adapter( 1.19), ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 18
hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA13.6, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0xe400-0xe407,0xe802 on irq 18
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: setmax LBA 18041184, native  18039168
hda: 18039168 sectors (9236 MB) w/371KiB Cache, CHS=17896/16/63, UDMA(66)
hdc: host protected area => 1
hdc: 27068420 sectors (13859 MB) w/371KiB Cache, CHS=26853/16/63, UDMA(66)

You mean like the stoke check does ?

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Tue Aug 20, 2002 at 07:40:37PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > > hde reduced to Ultra33 mode.
> > > hde: host protected area => 1
> > > hde: 117266688 sectors (60041 MB) w/1820KiB Cache, CHS=116336/16/63, UDMA(133)
> 
> BTW that host protected area message is pretty silly. It gives
> the appearance that perhaps the BIOS has issued a SET MAX ADDRESS
> when in fact, all the message is doing is enumerating the drive's
> capabilities (duplicating what 'hdparm -I' does).  At the
> minimum, this message should be changed to something more like:
> 
>     printk("%s: host protected area supported: %s\n", 
> 	    drive->name, (flag==1)? "no" : "yes");
> 
> Personally, I think we should lose the message entirely.  If
> someone want to know what their drive can do, they can ask
> hdparm and get a full listing,
> 
>  -Erik
> 
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Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group