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Hi All,

I want to limit requested sectors each time in function 
drivers/ide/ide-disk.c::__ide_do_rw_disk. The requested
sectors were defined in rq->nr_sectors. So how to limit or decrease 
nr_sectors for data transfer each time?

Thanks in advance,
Gavin