On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:41:57AM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > What I meant to say was that I know ATA supports 4 KB LBS and that > nobody appears to care about it. I sent patches to add support ... they were ignored. Part of the problem is that ATA is heinously broken wrt non-512 byte sector sizes. You have to know which commands work in multiples of the block size, and which commands work in multiples of 512-bytes. There's no easy way to figure it out; you need a table. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
