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Subject: Re: MMC performance
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Llu, 2004-10-11 at 13:19, Russell King wrote:
> Only if you can reliably know how many bytes you've tranferred when
> an error occurs.  Without that, the only safe way to do a write is
> sector by sector.

Only on retries. You can try and blast the lot out the first time then
on retries you write sector by sector.