Re: end to end error recovery musings

H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-01T17:19:39Z

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 17:28 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> James Bottomley wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 12:42 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>> 4104. It's 8 bytes per hardware sector. At least for T10...
>>> Er ... that won't look good to the 512 ATA compatibility remapping ...
>>>
>> Well, in that case you'd only see 8x512 data bytes, no metadata...
>
> i.e. no support for block guard in the 512 byte sector emulation
> mode ...
>

That makes sense, though... if the raw sector size is 4096 bytes, that
metadata would presumably not exist on a per-sector basis.

-hpa