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Subject: [Bug 12207] block reads/writes > 122880 bytes to USB tape drive gives EBUSY
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:39:44 -0800 (PST)
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------- Comment #18 from stern@rowland.harvard.edu  2008-12-30 11:39 -------
Does James's patch fix the problem?

If it does, would we be better off making 0xFFFF the default
max_sectors value and then explicitly decreasing it to 240 only for
disk-type devices?  Or would that be liable to cause problems for 
things like CD writers and cdrecord?

Alan Stern

PS: Why is 0xFFFF the accepted maximum value?  Historical reasons?  In 
theory, the real maximum should be one less than the number of sectors 
in 4 GB, i.e., ((1 << (32-9)) - 1 or 0x7FFFFF.


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