From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:11:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40660A3D.3020300@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40660877.3090302@stesmi.com>
Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> What will happen when a PATA disk lies behind a Marvel(ous) bridge, as
> in most SATA disks today?
Larger transfers work fine in PATA, too.
WRT bridges, it is generally the best idea to limit to UDMA/100 (udma),
but larger transfers are OK.
> Is large transfers mandatory in the LBA48 spec and is LBA48 really
> mandatory in SATA?
Yes and no, in that order :) SATA doesn't mandate lba48, but it is
highly unlikely that you will see SATA disk without lba48.
Regardless, libata supports what the drive supports. Older disks still
work just fine.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-27 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-27 22:37 [PATCH] speed up SATA Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:04 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-27 23:11 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-03-28 7:23 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 15:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-27 23:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-27 23:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 0:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 0:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 11:42 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-27 23:37 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-27 23:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:47 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-27 23:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 14:10 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:35 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 18:15 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 8:09 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 12:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 12:44 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 12:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 13:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-29 13:08 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 17:19 ` Craig I. Hagan
2004-03-29 18:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 19:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 18:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-28 18:17 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:30 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 18:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 18:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28 20:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 0:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 4:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 13:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 19:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 11:09 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 15:54 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-30 16:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 18:05 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-30 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 18:19 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-29 4:29 ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-03-29 7:32 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-29 8:13 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 13:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 4:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-29 4:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 19:52 ` Nuno Silva
2004-03-28 20:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 0:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 0:15 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28 0:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 1:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28 1:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 13:59 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:31 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 13:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:50 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-04-02 10:11 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-04-02 16:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 10:48 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-04-03 13:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:40 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:55 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 18:09 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 20:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:54 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28 7:32 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 21:16 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 21:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 14:08 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:45 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28 0:21 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28 4:40 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28 6:56 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28 20:33 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28 20:59 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-29 1:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-29 5:24 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-29 13:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 11:36 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-29 18:46 ` David Lang
2004-03-29 20:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 5:55 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-30 12:16 ` Marc Bevand
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