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 10:44:33 -0400 Message-ID: <45057651.8000404@garzik.org> References: <20060911132250.GA5178@havoc.gtf.org> <45056627.7030202@ru.mvista.com> <450566A2.1090009@garzik.org> <450568F3.3020005@ru.mvista.com> <1157986974.23085.147.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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]:40373 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932232AbWIKOoj (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:44:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1157986974.23085.147.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 17:47 +0400, ysgrifennodd Sergei Shtylyov: >> 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. > > Several people reported this problem when we tried 256 years ago in > drivers/ide. You might want to do 256 for SATA Jeff but please don't do > 256 for PATA. Reading specs is too hard for some people ;) > > Some drives abort the xfer, some just choked. Where in drivers/ide is it limited to 255? Jeff