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 09:49:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4505694D.5020304@garzik.org> References: <20060911132250.GA5178@havoc.gtf.org> <45056627.7030202@ru.mvista.com> <450566A2.1090009@garzik.org> <450568F3.3020005@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]:36787 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750776AbWIKNtD (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:49:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <450568F3.3020005@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: > It's not likely I'll be able to try it. But I'm absolutely sure that > drive aborted the read commands with the sector count of 0 (i.e. 256 > actually). The exact model was IBM DHEA-34331. > 255 sectors actually seems more safe bet. This sort of thing should be handled by quirks, depending on the controller and drive. That's why I was asking for testing, to see if the current code already handles this. Jeff