Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

Jeff Garzik
2003-11-30T17:24:58Z

Jens Axboe wrote:
>>Well, the constraint we must satisfy is
>>
>> sector_count % 15 != 1
>
>
> (sector_count % 15 != 1) && (sector_count != 1)
>
> to be more precise :)

Thanks for the clarification, I did not know that.

Avoiding sector_count==1 requires additional code :( Valid requests
might be a single sector. With page-based blkdevs requests smaller than
a page would certainly be infrequent, but are still possible, with bsg
for example...

Jeff