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-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/disk_drive.c27
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/disk_drive.c b/drivers/ata/disk_drive.c
index 15ef5f41b9..a54429a5f1 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/disk_drive.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/disk_drive.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
* @brief Generic disk drive support
*
* @todo Support for disks larger than 4 GiB
+ * @todo Reliable size detection for BIOS based disks (on x86 only)
*/
#include <stdio.h>
@@ -299,11 +300,16 @@ static int disk_probe(struct device_d *dev)
else
#endif
disk_cdev->name = asprintf("disk%d", dev->id);
- /**
- * @todo we need the size of the drive, else its nearly impossible
- * to do anything with it (at least with the generic routines)
- */
- disk_cdev->size = 32; /* FIXME */
+
+ /* On x86, BIOS based disks are coming without a valid .size field */
+ if (dev->size == 0) {
+ /*
+ * We need always the size of the drive, else its nearly impossible
+ * to do anything with it (at least with the generic routines)
+ */
+ disk_cdev->size = 32;
+ } else
+ disk_cdev->size = dev->size;
disk_cdev->ops = &disk_ops;
disk_cdev->dev = dev;
devfs_create(disk_cdev);
@@ -314,10 +320,13 @@ static int disk_probe(struct device_d *dev)
goto on_error;
}
- /* guess the size of this drive */
- dev->size = disk_guess_size(dev, (struct partition_entry*)&sector[446]) * SECTOR_SIZE;
- dev_info(dev, "Drive size guessed to %u kiB\n", dev->size / 1024);
- disk_cdev->size = dev->size;
+ if (dev->size == 0) {
+ /* guess the size of this drive if not otherwise given */
+ dev->size = disk_guess_size(dev,
+ (struct partition_entry*)&sector[446]) * SECTOR_SIZE;
+ dev_info(dev, "Drive size guessed to %u kiB\n", dev->size / 1024);
+ disk_cdev->size = dev->size;
+ }
rc = disk_register_partitions(dev, (struct partition_entry*)&sector[446]);