From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: sata_inic162x driver for 2.6.19 timeouts etc Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:29:18 -0500 Message-ID: <45C7696E.3000907@rtr.ca> References: <752079.2468.qm@web801.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:1816 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752088AbXBER3U (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:29:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <752079.2468.qm@web801.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bob Stewart Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Bob Stewart wrote: > By the way, > the drive I'm using to play with this now is only an 80GB drive. Most newer drives are still capable of LBA48, even when they are small enough to not require it for sector addressing. If a large enough I/O (more than 256 sectors) is generated, then libata may use LBA48 to complete a request on such drives. Cheers