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Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:49:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage
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On 8 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 14:35, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > Yep, you are right, hwif->addressing logic is reversed, what a mess.
>
> No the problem is you keep treating it as a binary value. Addressing is
> a mode. Right now 0 is LBA28/CHS and 1 is LBA48. SATA next generation
> stuff extends this even further so will I imagine be addressing=2

You are right but currently it is a binary value.
The same goes for actual usage of drive->addressing and comment in ide.h.
--
Bartlomiej