[ros-kernel] Re: AW: AW: Re: RE: Re: RE: New ide driver

[Jakob E. <ja...@vm...>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:38:18PM +0100, Eric Kohl wrote:
> 
> "Hartmut Birr" <har...@te...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > The problem is in IDEGetDriveIdentification(). Two of my disks reports a
> > sector size of 580 Byte. When I set DrvParms->BytesPerSector to 512, it
> > works fine.
> >
> Arrrgh! What kind of disk is this? Any special IBM mainframe disk?

Doesn't it work with 580 byte sector size?

> I don't really like the idea of hardcoding the sector size. Perhaps 512
> bytes should be a kind of default value if the reported sector size is not
> 1024 or 2048.
> 
> Any ideas??
> 

A table with disk brands?

Ignoring the problem and hoping that non-ancient disks behave better?

regards,
Jakob

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