On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:36:29AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, May 30 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > >Yep lets please do that, I don't think libata ever had any problems with > > >256 sectors other than perhaps a worry that it would break "something" :-) > > > > There were definite bugs in the past with 256 (versus <= 255) sectors... > > Hardware or software? IIRC, the hardware ones were largely an urban > legend. Software. Alan is submitting a couple PATA drivers limited to 255 though... Jeff - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
