From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
albertcc@tw.ibm.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: increase LBA48 max sectors to 65535
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:44:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060220114423.GF8852@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F9A718.1060008@pobox.com>
On Mon, Feb 20 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >How about making it 256 at the start of a kernel cycle and see if
> >anything falls apart? If IDE works, then surely SATA should as well.
>
> As I said, it had nothing to do with hardware. The variable in the
> equation is the driver code itself, so IDE working implies nothing here,
> alas.
>
> Sigh... I'll search through some old emails.
Hmmm, I'm having a hard time imagining what such a bug would look like
that would cause breakage with 256 sectors and work with 200. Especially
since we already do > 256 for lba48. But let me/us know what you dig up
from the email archives!
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-20 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-12 14:32 [PATCHSET] libata: make some configurations per-dev Tejun Heo
2006-02-12 14:32 ` [PATCH 1/4] libata: make ata_dev_knobble() per-device Tejun Heo
2006-02-12 19:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-12 14:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] libata: move cdb_len for host to device Tejun Heo
2006-02-12 14:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] libata: add per-device max_sectors Tejun Heo
2006-02-12 19:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-13 0:47 ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-13 4:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-15 7:24 ` [PATCH] libata: increase LBA48 max sectors to 65535 Tejun Heo
2006-02-15 13:07 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-15 15:04 ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-15 15:12 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-15 15:30 ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-15 19:03 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-15 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-15 23:05 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-20 11:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-20 13:54 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-20 13:58 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-16 7:42 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-20 11:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-20 11:44 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-02-20 21:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-12 14:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] libata: kill sht->max_sectors Tejun Heo
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