It seems Nickolay N. Dudorov wrote:
> > The diskid (IC...) has me somewhat stumped though, I would have thougt
> > the used something like all other IBM disks. Is this a genuine IBM disk
> > or is it some kind of OEM/rebadged device ?
>
> Yes, this IS genuine IBM disk.
> See: <http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/desk/ds60gxp.htm>
>
> So I'll continue to use patched 'sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c'
> and hope this will work ;-)
:) well could you try this patch instead, that should work with
all future IBM ATA disks (as long a they stick to this scheme
that is, and still support tags)
Index: ata-disk.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c,v
retrieving revision 1.108
diff -u -r1.108 ata-disk.c
--- ata-disk.c 2001/06/08 05:24:13 1.108
+++ ata-disk.c 2001/06/21 07:43:55
@@ -856,6 +856,14 @@
return 1;
i++;
}
+ /*
+ * check IBM's new obscure way of naming drives
+ * we want "IC" (IBM CORP) and "AV" (ATA interface)
+ * but doesn't care about the other crap (size, capacity etc)
+ */
+ if (!strncmp(AD_PARAM->model, "IC", 2) &&
+ !strncmp(AD_PARAM->model + 8, "AV", 2) )
+ return 1;
}
return 0;
}
-Søren
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