From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: jgarzik and max-sectors: out of memory Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 10:36:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20060530083629.GA4199@suse.de> References: <4478AA6C.5070305@garzik.org> <200605272243.41832.axboe@suse.de> <447BD0FD.1000200@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:7440 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932187AbWE3IfA (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 04:35:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <447BD0FD.1000200@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Tejun Heo , Alan Cox , Mark Lord , Hannes Reinecke On Tue, May 30 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >Yep lets please do that, I don't think libata ever had any problems with > >256 sectors other than perhaps a worry that it would break "something" :-) > > There were definite bugs in the past with 256 (versus <= 255) sectors... Hardware or software? IIRC, the hardware ones were largely an urban legend. -- Jens Axboe