From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Dan Porat <dan.porat@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 520 Bytes sector size
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:46:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1d40md7vr.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100202232540.7f5327f6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (Alan Cox's message of "Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:25:40 +0000")
>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> Linux does not support 520-byte sectors unless the drive is formatted
>> with DIF and hanging off a DIF-capable HBA.
Alan> Is that true even with sg - I wouldn't have thought sg minded, it
Alan> doesn't seem to mind about strange sized transfers for CD-ROM ?
Did not work last I mucked with it a while back. If I recall correctly
there were a few places where we assumed multiples of 512.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-03 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-02 12:50 520 Bytes sector size Dan Porat
2010-02-02 23:04 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-02-02 23:25 ` Alan Cox
2010-02-03 8:46 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2010-02-03 17:19 ` Mark Lord
2010-02-07 7:57 ` Dan Porat
2010-02-07 16:12 ` Mark Lord
2010-02-08 18:49 ` Dan Porat
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