Re: Request for new ATA feature

From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy_at_optushome.com.au>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:34:35 +1100
On Sun, 2005-Feb-27 13:58:11 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>I have a suggestion for a feature that would be useful to me:  I am
>in the process of rejunenating an old system for use as a proxy server.
>Unfortunately, the BIOS is limited to 32GB and I want to put an 80GB
>drive in.  The drive (Seagate Barracuda) includes a jumper that makes
>the drive report a capacity of 32GB until it is reset using a "set
>features/report full capacity available" command.

Attached is a patch against 5.3-RELEASE to implement this.  It applies
cleanly to -CURRENT but I haven't tested it there.

-- 
Peter Jeremy

Received on Sat Mar 05 2005 - 11:34:49 UTC

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