From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:46:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F37902F.8050502@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10308110515510.12816-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 28bit it is a free for all, and anything goes in linux because nobody is
> willing to commit and force anything over 8.4GB to LBA only. People think
> that "orphan sectors" are a bad thing. IFF one can only IO in LBA with
> the exception of sectors at or below the 8.4GB limit then one never needs
> to worry about rogue programs existing out in nowhere land.
libata requires LBA support, and always uses LBA addressing <grin>
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-11 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-08 23:24 [PATCH] kill HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-08-10 20:29 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-08-10 23:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-08-10 23:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-08-11 12:19 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-08-11 12:46 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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