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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:31:05 -0500
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Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>I also wouldn't want to lock out any users who wanted to use SATA at 
>>full speed ;-)
> 
> 
> And full speed requires 32MB requests?


Full speed is the SATA driver supporting the hardware maximum.  The 
block layer and general fragmentation limit things further from there.

	Jeff