From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bio too big device
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:59:03 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4nsh7$eg0$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030312154440.GA4868@win.tue.nl
In article <20030312154440.GA4868@win.tue.nl>,
Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
>> So I still think it's much better stick with the safe choice. Why do you
>> think it's only one drive that has this bug? It basically boils down to
>> whether That Other OS uses 256 sector commands or not. If it doesn't, I
>> wouldn't trust the drives one bit.
>
>I am not quite sure I understand your reasoning.
>We have seen *zero* drives that do not understand 256 sector commands.
>Maybe such drives exist, but so far there is zero evidence.
That is definitely not true. We definitely _have_ had drives that
misconstrue the 256-sector case. It's been a long time, but they
definitely exist.
The right limit for IDE is 255 sectors, and doing 256 sectors WILL fail
on some setups.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-12 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-12 2:55 bio too big device scott thomason
2003-03-12 3:17 ` scott thomason
2003-03-12 8:18 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 3:37 ` Neil Brown
2003-03-12 3:49 ` scott thomason
2003-03-12 8:30 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 5:01 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12 8:47 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-12 8:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12 8:51 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 9:01 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12 9:09 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 10:07 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12 10:14 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 15:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-12 15:51 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 16:02 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-12 16:06 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 16:14 ` John Bradford
2003-03-12 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-03-12 19:05 ` John Bradford
2003-03-12 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-12 22:20 ` John Bradford
2003-03-12 21:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-14 11:19 ` Paul Gortmaker
2003-03-12 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 14:54 ` scott thomason
2003-03-12 14:58 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 17:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 16:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 15:11 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 17:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 16:06 ` Jens Axboe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-12 18:19 Manfred Spraul
2003-03-12 21:40 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <20030416172122.M65357@gw>
[not found] ` <20030416181944.M32238@gw>
2003-04-16 18:32 ` Anders Larsson
2003-04-17 13:36 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-16 18:43 Mudama, Eric
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