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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add support for READ/WRITE LONG
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:23:22 -0400
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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:08:19 -0400
> Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> 
>> The READ/WRITE LONG commands are theoretically obsolete,
>> but the majority of drives in existance still implement them.
>>
>> The WRITE_LONG and WRITE_LONG_ONCE commands are of particular
>> interest for fault injection testing -- eg. creating "media errors"
>> at specific locations on a disk.
> 
> Do you still get hangs with ata_piix if you use R/W LONG and these
> changes ?

Err.. I *never* got hangs with ata_piix and these patches.
Either that, or the Alzheimer's is getting worse.  ;)

???