Re: [Qemu-devel] enabling bus-master IDE driver

[zitu]

Quoting Juergen Keil <address@hidden>:
> > WIN_WRITEDMA_EXT & WIN_READDMA_EXT cases are not defined in hw/ide.c
>
> Aha, and Windows uses these commands, on small HDDs <= 128GB ?

Apparently no... I realized after I wrote this email that WIN_WRITEDMA
should be the right command to invoke,
>
>
> > I have no idea where to start to write a patch for these... :(
> >
> > Until these and the atapi_dma are set/defined, no dma should work IMHO.
> > And this seems not to be OS dependant.
> >
> > Which means the linux figures I got were wrong ???
>
> The *_EXT versions are apparently for HDDs with capacities >128GB, these
> need 48-bit LBA addresses to access the HDD space over the 128GB mark.
>
> I guess that Solaris/Linux uses the commands with the smaller 28-bit
> LBA disk addresses for small disks with capacities <= 128GB.
>
> An interesting experiment would be to setup a QEMU HDD image > 128GB,
> then try Solaris x86/Linux with such a big disk and check if it still
> works.  Probably not.
>
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