From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: What's in libata-dev.git Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:37:38 -0400 Message-ID: <450566A2.1090009@garzik.org> References: <20060911132250.GA5178@havoc.gtf.org> <45056627.7030202@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:12979 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750815AbWIKNhk (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:37:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <45056627.7030202@ru.mvista.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > 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). That's a typo. The first description ("lba28") is correct. Let me know if your IBM drive has problems with current libata-dev.git#upstream... Jeff