http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12207 ------- Comment #18 from stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2008-12-30 11:39 ------- Does James's patch fix the problem? If it does, would we be better off making 0xFFFF the default max_sectors value and then explicitly decreasing it to 240 only for disk-type devices? Or would that be liable to cause problems for things like CD writers and cdrecord? Alan Stern PS: Why is 0xFFFF the accepted maximum value? Historical reasons? In theory, the real maximum should be one less than the number of sectors in 4 GB, i.e., ((1 << (32-9)) - 1 or 0x7FFFFF. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
