Mark Lord wrote:
The READ/WRITE LONG commands are theoretically obsolete, but the majority of drives in existance still implement them. The WRITE_LONG and WRITE_LONG_ONCE commands are of particular interest for fault injection testing -- eg. creating "media errors" at specific locations on a disk. The fussy bit is that these commands require a non-standard sector size, usually 520 bytes instead of 512.
.. A possible nice side-benefit, is that this patch also prepares libata for future extension to use drives with a mix of physical sector sizes. More work required for that, of course, but not *much* more. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
