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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RESEND: SCSI, libata: add support for ATA_16 commands
 to libata ATAPI devices
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:53:03 -0500
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To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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James Bottomley wrote:
>..
> In SCSI, we're very careful only to use large commands where necessary,
> so even for a >2TB array, you only see 16 byte commands for sectors
> beyond 2TB.  This essentially means that the capacity (and we do a
> careful READ_CAPACITY(10) and only move on to READ_CAPACITY(16) if we're
> told to) limits the command size.

Very cool, James.