Commands sent to ATAPI tape drives via the SCSI generic (sg) driver are limited in the amount of data that they can transfer by the max_sectors value. The max_sectors value is currently calculated according to the command set for disk drives, which doesn't apply to tape drives. The default max_sectors value of 256 limits ATAPI tape drive commands to 128 KB. This patch against 2.6.24-rc1 increases the max_sectors value for tape drives to 65535, which permits tape drive commands to transfer just under 32 MB. Tested with a SuperMicro PDSME motherboard, AHCI, and a Sony SDX-570V SATA tape drive. Note that some of the chipset drivers also set their own max_sectors value, which may override the value set in libata-core. I don't have any of these chipsets to test, so I didn't go messing with them. Also, ATAPI devices other than tape drives may benefit from similar changes, but I have only tape drives and disk drives to test. Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -urpN linux-2.6.24-rc1-vanilla/drivers/ata/libata-core.c linux-2.6.24-rc1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c --- linux-2.6.24-rc1-vanilla/drivers/ata/libata-core.c 2007-10-30 09:21:38.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c 2007-10-30 11:35:57.000000000 -0400 @@ -2126,6 +2126,10 @@ int ata_dev_configure(struct ata_device dev->max_sectors = ATA_MAX_SECTORS; } + if ((dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI) && + (atapi_command_packet_set(id) == TYPE_TAPE)) + dev->max_sectors = ATA_MAX_SECTORS_TAPE; + if (dev->horkage & ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_128) dev->max_sectors = min_t(unsigned int, ATA_MAX_SECTORS_128, dev->max_sectors); diff -urpN linux-2.6.24-rc1-vanilla/include/linux/ata.h linux-2.6.24-rc1/include/linux/ata.h --- linux-2.6.24-rc1-vanilla/include/linux/ata.h 2007-10-30 09:21:54.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc1/include/linux/ata.h 2007-10-30 10:30:59.000000000 -0400 @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ enum { ATA_MAX_SECTORS_128 = 128, ATA_MAX_SECTORS = 256, ATA_MAX_SECTORS_LBA48 = 65535,/* TODO: 65536? */ + ATA_MAX_SECTORS_TAPE = 65535, ATA_ID_WORDS = 256, ATA_ID_SERNO = 10, @@ -522,6 +523,11 @@ static inline int atapi_cdb_len(const u1 } } +static inline int atapi_command_packet_set(const u16 *dev_id) +{ + return (dev_id[0] >> 8) & 0x1f; +} + static inline int is_atapi_taskfile(const struct ata_taskfile *tf) { return (tf->protocol == ATA_PROT_ATAPI) || - 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