> On 1. sept 2016, at 21:28, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Thursday, September 01, 2016 06:35:13 AM Toomas Soome wrote: >> Author: tsoome >> Date: Thu Sep 1 06:35:13 2016 >> New Revision: 305178 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/305178 >> >> Log: >> bd_int13probe() should check extended info if sector info is bad >> >> In some Dell systems and usb stick combinations, it is found that >> int13 AH=08 is reporting back bad sector information, preventing the >> boot. >> >> This update is allowing bd_int13probe() to use extended info call to >> build disk properties. >> >> It also can happen the total sectors count from extended info may be >> wrong, in such case, the CHS data is used to calculate total sectors. >> >> Reviewed by: allanjude >> Approved by: allanjude (mentor) >> Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7718 > > Hmm, can you see if this fixes > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176748 ? > > -- > John Baldwin
eh… well. as he was reporting about bad sector size - my patch does not check it.. so apparently that would be good check as well…. unfortunately I don’t have any of such broken BIOSes handy to verify what kind of breakage it is - are they just filling EDD with garbage or is there any kind of logic. rgds, toomas _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
