ATA_MAX_SECTORS is 200, rather than than 256 like it should be. I seem
to recall that this was due to libata being incomplete in some area, but
I've tried in vain for a year to remember where the alleged
incompleteness was, to no avail. So, my brain is out of memory :)
Further -- someone with a long ATA memory correct me -- I think that we
can increase ATA_MAX_PRD beyond 256. Most DMA engines should just keep
chugging along, provided that we continue to respect the 64k IDE DMA
boundaries.
So, I propose that we rename ATA_MAX_SECTORS to ATA_LBA28_SECTORS, and
change its value to 256, and see what happens. People have reported
that that worked for them, so let's subject it to a wide test. If
people are extremely paranoid, we could increase it to 255, and then in
the next kernel version, bump it from 255 to 256.
Then we can look at increasing ATA_MAX_PRD, if that's feasible for PATA
hardware.
Jeff
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