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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 18:17:34 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 03:15:26PM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> > What is the max_sectors_kb value for them?
> > 
> # cat /sys/block/sdi/queue/max_sectors_kb
> 16383

That's odd, it's half of what ATA disks should support.  Is this
device attached to the HBA or an expander?