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Subject: Re: bio too big device
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:19, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> IDE uses 127 sector requests if support for PDC4030 is compiled it, 
> otherwise 255. It seems someone started with a blacklist, but never 
> completed it.
> Does any distro enable PDC4030 support?

I'd be quite suprised. The 2.5 kernel means we can set max sectors per
channel easily so that issue is solvable too. I'd just not noticed it
until you pointed it out