On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > The 256 is _not_ a bug in the driver, it's more likely a bug in your
> > drive. 256 is a perfectly legal transfer size. That said, maybe it is
> > a good idea to leave it at 255 just for safety on drives not handling
> > 0 sectors == 128kB transfer.
>
> Agreed. That would be a trivially easy bug in the firmware, limiting to
> 255 sectors seems safer.
Guys which side of the counter is the decrementer?
Telling the drive to transfer 256 sectors in PIO is filling the
sector_count register with '0' == 'zero'.
As long as 255 == 255 and 0 == 256 for total sectors to transfer all is
cool.
Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
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