Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

[Jeff Garzik]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Well, the constraint we must satisfy is
> >
> > 	sector_count % 15 != 1
>
>
> 	(sector_count % 15 != 1) && (sector_count != 1)
>
> to be more precise :)


Thanks for the clarification, I did not know that.

Avoiding sector_count==1 requires additional code :(  Valid requests 
might be a single sector.  With page-based blkdevs requests smaller than 
a page would certainly be infrequent, but are still possible, with bsg 
for example...

	Jeff



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