On Tue, May 30 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:10:02AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > And I'm sure some are even lower than that. Of course libata should be > > be imposing anything on the driver, the logic that drivers/ide uses for > > this is actually pretty sane: > > > > if (device_lba28) > > max_hw_sectors = 256; > > if (device_lba48) > > max_hw_sectors = 65536; > > if (max_sectors > more_than_controller_supports) > > max_sectors = more_than_controller_supports; > > > > or something close to that. > > libata has always done this, modulo the ATA_MAX_SECTORS issue. I thought so, but then I don't understand your last mail - there's no problem with 255 sector drivers, then. -- Jens Axboe - : 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
