ata_read_native_max_address(9)

✨ ata_read_native_max_address(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ata_read_native_max_address, and it's literally about reading the native max address. no cap, it's giving “one job, done cute.” 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ata_read_native_max_address — Read native max address, periodt.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ata_read_native_max_address (struct ata_device *dev , u64
*max_sectors );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — target device. the device we're lowkey interrogating.
• max_sectors — out parameter for the result native max address. yes bestie, the result lands in here. 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this function performs an LBA48 or LBA28 native size query upon the device in question. that's the whole vibe: it checks the device with an LBA48 or LBA28 query, and the native size info is the main character. ✨

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 — success, we ate. 💅
• -EACCES — command is aborted by the drive.
• -EIO — other errors.

bestie, those are the exact return vibes: 0 means success, -EACCES means the drive aborted the command, and -EIO covers other errors. no guessing, fr fr.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/ata/libata-core.c and literally the whole libata friend group:

Kernel file ./drivers/ata/libata-core.c ata_link_next(9),
ata_dev_next(9), ata_dev_phys_link(9), ata_force_cbl(9),
ata_force_pflags(9), ata_force_link_limits(9), ata_force_xfermask(9),
ata_force_quirks(9), atapi_cmd_type(9), ata_set_rwcmd_protocol(9),
ata_tf_read_block(9), ata_build_rw_tf(9), ata_pack_xfermask(9),
ata_unpack_xfermask(9), ata_xfer_mask2mode(9), ata_xfer_mode2mask(9),
ata_xfer_mode2shift(9), ata_mode_string(9), ata_dev_classify(9),
ata_id_string(9), ata_id_c_string(9), ata_set_max_sectors(9),
ata_hpa_resize(9), ata_dump_id(9), ata_id_xfermask(9),
ata_exec_internal(9), ata_pio_need_iordy(9), ata_pio_mask_no_iordy(9),
ata_do_dev_read_id(9), ata_dev_read_id(9), ata_dev_power_set_standby(9),
ata_dev_power_set_active(9), ata_read_log_page(9), ata_dev_configure(9),
ata_cable_40wire(9), ata_cable_80wire(9), ata_cable_unknown(9),
ata_cable_ignore(9), ata_cable_sata(9), sata_print_link_status(9),
ata_dev_pair(9), ata_timing_cycle2mode(9), ata_down_xfermask_limit(9),
ata_set_mode(9), ata_wait_ready(9), ata_wait_after_reset(9),
ata_std_prereset(9), ata_std_postreset(9), ata_dev_same_device(9),
ata_dev_reread_id(9), ata_dev_revalidate(9), ata_is_40wire(9),
cable_is_40wire(9), ata_dev_xfermask(9), ata_dev_set_xfermode(9),
ata_dev_set_feature(9), ata_dev_init_params(9), atapi_check_dma(9),
ata_std_qc_defer(9), ata_sg_init(9), ata_sg_clean(9), ata_sg_setup(9),
swap_buf_le16(9), ata_qc_free(9), ata_qc_complete(9),
ata_qc_get_active(9), ata_qc_issue(9), ata_phys_link_online(9),
ata_phys_link_offline(9), ata_link_online(9), ata_link_offline(9),
ata_host_suspend(9), ata_host_resume(9), ata_dev_init(9),
ata_link_init(9), sata_link_init_spd(9), ata_port_alloc(9),
ata_host_alloc(9), ata_host_alloc_pinfo(9), ata_finalize_port_ops(9),
ata_host_start(9), ata_host_init(9), ata_host_register(9),
ata_host_activate(9), ata_dev_free_resources(9), ata_port_detach(9),
ata_host_detach(9), ata_pci_remove_one(9), ata_platform_remove_one(9),
ata_msleep(9), ata_wait_register(9)

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mwah 💋 bye bestie 🫶 — this lil page comes from ./drivers/ata, dated October 2026, and it's titled ata_read_native_max_address(9). that's the footer tea, and we're done. 🎀