From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: What's in libata-dev.git Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:35:35 +0400 Message-ID: <45056627.7030202@ru.mvista.com> References: <20060911132250.GA5178@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:50738 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932336AbWIKNdd (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:33:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060911132250.GA5178@havoc.gtf.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Hello. Jeff Garzik wrote: > The following libata changes are queued for 2.6.19: > > General > ------- > * Increase lba28 max sectors from 200 to 256 [...] > Jeff Garzik: [...] > [ATA] Increase lba48 max-sectors from 200 to 256. So was it for LBA28 or for LBA48? As for LBA28, it might be quite dangerous. Particularly, I know that IBM drives used to mistreated 256 as 0 in the past (bumped into that on a 8-year old drive which is still alive though). WBR, Sergei