Reading Maximum Address Of The HD In LBA48

Lprogster · Post by **Lprogster** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:54 pm

...False alert!...

Lprogster · Post by **Lprogster** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:45 am

I think I have it working - I found a new ATA specification which told me what I needed.

Lster

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:06 pm

Lprogster wrote:I think I have it working - I found a new ATA specification which told me what I needed.

Lster

Care to share what you have to do to get the size in LBA48?

Lprogster · Post by **Lprogster** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:21 am

[EDIT]

Good luck,
Lster

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:31 am

My port mistake was worse - in my inport[size] function I forgot to return the data read from the port...

Lprogster · Post by **Lprogster** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:14 am

I tend to find, the more complex a task, the simpler the mistakes... LOL

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:03 pm

I remember reading a comment in early Linux source about a function that said something like "I hope this works. I'd hate to have to debug this".

The my complex the code is, the more you want to write it once and never touch it again and assume your the perfect coder who does have bugs.

It'll appear to work, until 2 months later when you've built a whole lot of code dependent on that code and after a day of debugging you've uncovered around 20 bugs in your original code.

It's even scarier when you find major bugs in your code (especially errors in pointer arithmetic) yet it runs perfectly and produces no seen side effects.

Candy · Post by **Candy** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:39 pm

MessiahAndrw wrote:It's even scarier when you find major bugs in your code (especially errors in pointer arithmetic) yet it runs perfectly and produces no seen side effects.

Seen that a lot, sadly. Usually it's a function that makes a hash of everything but barely compiles, which is then never used.