Re: [PATCH] fix SCSI non-blocksize reads

Linus Torvalds
2001-11-22T17:15:09Z

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> Several SCSI drivers blindly do reads of size 1024 when trying to read
> the partition table. This fails on Magneto Optical drives and similar
> odd devices with 2048 byte native sector sizes. This patch fixes that
> so I can have partitions on my MO drive again (it lives on an Adaptec
> card at present and has 2048 byte sectors),

Please use the "block_size()" function instead of doing it by hand..

Linus