Re: What's in libata-dev.git

From: Greg Freemyer
Date: Mon Sep 11 2006 - 18:50:55 EST


On 9/11/06, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 21:51 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jens Axboe:
> Well, as I said, I don't think we ever saw a case that was demonstrably
> due to the 256 sector issue. And I really don't think it is as obscure a
> fact that people seem to think it is.

One of the ones I've got saved here is this thread. Paul goes on to
demonstrate that changing the 255<->256 limit makes 2.0/2.2/2.4 break or
not break.

<snip>

The whole thread is at http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/3/18/29

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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