I see , but aren't all the commands (including FPDMA) , shoudl work in 520 mode , when the disk is formatted to 520 ? Thanks On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Mark Lord <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> >> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:04:11 -0500 >> "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Porat <dan.porat@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>> Dan> I would like to run 520 Bytes disk in native mode. What changes I >>> Dan> have to run in sg driver ? Is there any kernel already adapted for >>> Dan> 520 bytes sector size ? >>> >>> Linux does not support 520-byte sectors unless the drive is formatted >>> with DIF and hanging off a DIF-capable HBA. > > .. > > The ATA READ_LONG and WRITE_LONG commands both use 520 byte sectors, > and both work with libata. > > -ml > -- 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
