Re: Question on hd_geometry & blk_rq_cur_sectors

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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:43, Vic <vic.lix10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Also, with my current settings, if I use DD on my ramdisk I get
> "blk_rq_cur_sectors" count to be always 8, which confuses my drive b'se I
> want to only handle 512 requests at a time.
> Simple command to test the disk sing DD "sudo dd if=/dev/urandom
> of=/dev/sbd0 bs=512 count=1"
> with bs=512 I was hoping to see only the 512 byte request

read ahead setting,  maybe?

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