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From: "David Chambliss" <chamb@almaden.ibm.com>
To: hiren_mehta@agilent.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about scsi generic behavior
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:49:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OFD495CEA8.42F18603-ON88256A65.00827EA4@LocalDomain> (raw)


I think you need to set bpt=8 .

It is possible to set some drives to block sizes other than 512 bytes, and
hardcoding 512 is not a good idea, especially in code that might last a
while.  In a few years we might have 4096-byte blocks to let the drives use
more powerful error correcting codes.

David Chambliss
Research Staff Member, Computer Science /Storage Systems
IBM Research Division
(408) 927-2243  (TL 457-2243)
FAX (408) 927-3497


             reply	other threads:[~2001-06-09  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-08 23:49 David Chambliss [this message]
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2001-06-09  4:40 question about scsi generic behavior David Chambliss
2001-06-09  1:27 hiren_mehta
2001-06-09  0:13 hiren_mehta
2001-06-09  0:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-08 23:22 hiren_mehta
2001-06-09 17:19 ` Douglas Gilbert

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