From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: increase LBA48 max sectors to 65535 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:44:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20060220114423.GF8852@suse.de> References: <43EF8E61.5040409@pobox.com> <43EFD73D.4070207@gmail.com> <43F011DF.6020203@pobox.com> <20060215072449.GA31691@htj.dyndns.org> <20060215130725.GP4203@suse.de> <43F342E6.9060909@gmail.com> <20060215151200.GW4203@suse.de> <43F38D49.4080601@pobox.com> <20060216074258.GF4203@suse.de> <43F9A718.1060008@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:53345 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932603AbWBTLor (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:44:47 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43F9A718.1060008@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Tejun Heo , albertcc@tw.ibm.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Mark Lord 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