From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Greg Freemyer" Subject: Re: What's in libata-dev.git Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:53:51 -0400 Message-ID: <87f94c370609111553m102cc128tf30058e5fff9e887@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060911132250.GA5178@havoc.gtf.org> <450566A2.1090009@garzik.org> <450568F3.3020005@ru.mvista.com> <1157986974.23085.147.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45057651.8000404@garzik.org> <1157988513.23085.159.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060911153706.GE4955@suse.de> <20060911195106.GA6775@kernel.dk> <1158015636.23085.218.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 ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:5588 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932292AbWIKWxx (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:53:53 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so1368400ugc for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:53:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1158015636.23085.218.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Jens Axboe , Jeff Garzik , Sergei Shtylyov , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton On 9/11/06, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 21:51 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jens Axboe: > > Well, as I said, I don't think we ever saw a case that was demonstrably > > due to the 256 sector issue. And I really don't think it is as obscure a > > fact that people seem to think it is. > > One of the ones I've got saved here is this thread. Paul goes on to > demonstrate that changing the 255<->256 limit makes 2.0/2.2/2.4 break or > not break. > The whole thread is at http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/3/18/29 Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century