From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:55:13 -0600 Message-ID: <20080729185512.GE24924@parisc-linux.org> References: <488F524F.6020905@redhat.com> <20080729192126.7261318b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080729192126.7261318b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: rwheeler@redhat.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jim Meyering List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:21:26PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Also early SD type devices with 256 byte sectors simply don't work with > our scsi midlayer. Are any of them still spinning, or did the lubricant leak out a couple of decades ago? -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."