Mark Lord wrote:

Albert Lee wrote:

quoted

  If the device supports LBA, then IDP is not issued in my patch. Is 
this OK?

It has been about a decade, but my memory vaguely suggests
that I tried that once before, and some LBA-capable drives
still required the IDP before they would function normally.

I think anything ATA-4 or later was fine, though.

So a safe rule would be

	if (ATA < 4)
		issue init-dev-params
	if (lba)
		...current code...
	else /* CHS */
		...current code...

?

	Jeff