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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bio too big device
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:05:04 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303121905.h2CJ5449001606@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4nsh7$eg0$1@penguin.transmeta.com> from "Linus Torvalds" at Mar 12, 2003 05:59:03 PM

> >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.
> 
> That is definitely not true.  We definitely _have_ had drives that
> misconstrue the 256-sector case. It's been a long time, but they
> definitely exist.
> 
> The right limit for IDE is 255 sectors, and doing 256 sectors WILL fail
> on some setups.

Couldn't we have a list of known good drives, though, and enable 256
sectors as a special case?

John.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-12 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-12  2:55 bio too big device scott thomason
2003-03-12  3:17 ` scott thomason
2003-03-12  8:18   ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12  3:37 ` Neil Brown
2003-03-12  3:49   ` scott thomason
2003-03-12  8:30   ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12  5:01 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12  8:47   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-12  8:59     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12  8:51   ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12  9:01     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12  9:09       ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 10:07         ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12 10:14           ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 15:44             ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-12 15:51               ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 16:02                 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-12 16:06                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 16:14                 ` John Bradford
2003-03-12 17:59               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-12 19:05                 ` John Bradford [this message]
2003-03-12 19:14                   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-12 22:20                     ` John Bradford
2003-03-12 21:28                 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-14 11:19                   ` Paul Gortmaker
2003-03-12 21:45                 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 14:54           ` scott thomason
2003-03-12 14:58             ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 17:09             ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 16:14         ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 15:11           ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 17:12             ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 16:06               ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 18:19 Manfred Spraul
2003-03-12 21:40 ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <20030416172122.M65357@gw>
     [not found] ` <20030416181944.M32238@gw>
2003-04-16 18:32   ` Anders Larsson
2003-04-17 13:36     ` Alan Cox
2003-04-16 18:43 Mudama, Eric

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