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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Scholz <steven.scholz@imc-berlin.de>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Impact of no_lba48{_dma} = 1 ?
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:49:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C9D8F8.2000303@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070207135309.66942d25@localhost.localdomain>

Hello.

Alan wrote:

>>>Only relevant for DMA really

>>So rqsize is only needed for DMA accesses?

    Not really, it affects both PIO and DMA.

> PIO transfers are sector at a time, or multi-sector up to a usual limit
> of about 16 sectors.

    You're clearly mixing 2 things here. PIO transfers are 1 sectors _per 
interrupt_ or N (usually 16) sectors in the multiple mode. The ANSI specified 
transfer limit is 256 for LBA28 (which fails on some drives), and 65536 with 
LBA48 _per command_.

MBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-07 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-07  9:56 Impact of no_lba48{_dma} = 1 ? Steven Scholz
2007-02-07 11:58 ` Alan
2007-02-07 13:25   ` Steven Scholz
2007-02-07 13:53     ` Alan
2007-02-07 13:49       ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-02-07 14:11         ` Alan
2007-02-07 14:03           ` Steven Scholz
2007-02-07 14:19             ` Alan
2007-02-07 14:10           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-02-07 13:57       ` Steven Scholz
2007-02-07 14:09         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-02-07 14:16         ` Alan

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