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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:51:05 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
       scott thomason <scott-kernel@thomasons.org>,
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Subject: Re: bio too big device
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On Wed, Mar 12 2003, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > So I still think it's much better stick with the safe choice. Why do you
> > think it's only one drive that has this bug? It basically boils down to
> > whether That Other OS uses 256 sector commands or not. If it doesn't, I
> > wouldn't trust the drives one bit.
> 
> I am not quite sure I understand your reasoning.
> We have seen *zero* drives that do not understand 256 sector commands.
> Maybe such drives exist, but so far there is zero evidence.

Have you read the thread? You are obviously mistaken.

-- 
Jens Axboe