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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: gshan <gshan@alcatel-lucent.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to limit number of sectors each time
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:47:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810171847.00687.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F6DD54.70004@alcatel-lucent.com>


[ added linux-ide@ to cc:, please use it for ATA questions ]

On Thursday 16 October 2008, gshan wrote:
> 
> > (please never send out html only emails, it's considered very bad style
> > on this list)
> >
> > Sounds like you need a quirk/blacklist entry for that drive, if it
> > doesn't support 0x00 as meaning 256 sectors. If you are using libata,
> > you can add a ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_128 entry to ata_device_blacklist[] in
> > drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> >   
> I'm using IDE driver instead of HD driver.

Then you need to add check for this device to ide_disk_setup()
(prior to blk_queue_max_sectors() call) in drivers/ide/ide-disk.c.

Thanks,
Bart

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-17 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-16  3:29 how to limit number of sectors each time gshan
2008-10-16  5:44 ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]   ` <48F6DA7A.9080003@alcatel-lucent.com>
     [not found]     ` <20081016061808.GS19428@kernel.dk>
2008-10-16  6:21       ` gshan
2008-10-16  6:25         ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-16  6:28           ` gshan
2008-10-17 16:47         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]

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