Re: What's in libata-dev.git

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 17:47 +0400, ysgrifennodd Sergei Shtylyov:

> > >     It's not likely I'll be able to try it. But I'm absolutely sure 
> > > that drive aborted the read commands with the sector count of 0 (i.e. 
> > > 256 actually). The exact model was IBM DHEA-34331.

> > Several people reported this problem when we tried 256 years ago in
> > drivers/ide. You might want to do 256 for SATA Jeff but please don't do
> > 256 for PATA. Reading specs is too hard for some people ;)

> > Some drives abort the xfer, some just choked.

> Where in drivers/ide is it limited to 255?

   Hm, indeed, it's 256 there...
   But the changelog in ide-probe.c suggests the were limited to 255 once 
upon a time. Also, hd.c still has this limit, and changelog talling why it was 
so...

WBR, Sergei
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