From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 Description of problem: Dell reports that a SATA host configured with a master supporting lba48 and a slave that does not support lba48, renders the slave inaccessible. The customer has supplied a patch that will not set the host's max_sectors when a drive supporting lba48 has been detected, since this becomes the default max sectors for any drives probed after that point. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-6.37.EL How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Additional info: I patched the kernel-2.6.9-6.37.EL with the customer patch, booted kernel on i686 system with a Promise SX4 controller and a SATA ST3160023AS to verify that it was still accessible.
Created attachment 114042 [details] Kernel bootup messages after applying linux-2.6.9-libata-lba48-max-sectors.patch Kernel messages at boot up after applying the linux-2.6.9-libata-lba48-max-sectors.patch
RHEL4 test kernels w/ above patches available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ Please verify that they are working and post the results here. Thanks!
fixed in CVS.
In 2.6.9-9. So its in U1.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-420.html