Possible error in IDE code.....

Donald Walton dwalton@dramail.com
Fri Nov 17 17:39:00 GMT 2006


In adding IDE support to my application, the software was not able to 
read the MBR properly.  It would read one byte and the rest of the 
buffer would be zeroes.

I tracked the problem to file - ide_disk.c, version 1.3, function - 
ide_read_sector.  One of the parameters passed in is len.  It unclear 
whether this is the buffer length or number of sectors to be read.  
However, a value of 1 is passed in for the length and only one byte is read.

Correcting the problem is not a big deal but I would like to know 
whether you meant for the length to be sector count or byte count.

Thanks for the great work you have done.

Sincerely,
Don Walton



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