On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:44:35 -0400 Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Seems reasonable to me and is valid for all ATAPI devices as far as I can see since we use READ_10/WRITE_10 commands. Alan - 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
