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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] cleanup of partition code
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 02:48:34 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110010243520.14026-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011001000446.A24245@codepoet.org>



On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:

> Here is what I normally see (in this case with 2.4.9-ac17):

> 	 sda:<5>ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
> 	 unable to read boot sectors / partition sectors
> 	SCSI device sdb: 310352 2048-byte hdwr sectors (636 MB)
> 	sdb: Write Protect is off
> 	 sdb:<5>ll_rw_block: device 08:10: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
> 	 unable to read boot sectors / partition sectors
 
> Note the ll_rw_block msg from where the acorn stuff is not reading in units
> of the physical sector size?  Also notice the "unable to read..." msg, which
> is where acorn chokes the partition table scanning...

Yes.  I've finished converting this sucker and I think I understand what's
going on there.  Reliance on block size being <= 1024 seems to be a
side effect of the implementation - not something fundamental.  I'll
try to feed the stuff you've sent into it and see if it works - new
code shouldn't care about the block size.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-01  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-30 22:31 [CFT][PATCH] cleanup of partition code Alexander Viro
2001-09-30 23:28 ` Tom Rini
2001-10-01  1:57 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-01  6:54   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-06 20:25     ` Linux kernel 2.4 and TCP terminations per second Imran Badr
2001-11-06 23:22       ` Alan Cox
2001-11-06 23:34         ` Imran Badr
2001-11-06 23:43           ` Roland Dreier
2001-11-07  0:02             ` Imran Badr
2001-11-06 23:56         ` David Lang
2001-11-07  0:29           ` Alan Cox
2001-10-01 11:40   ` [CFT][PATCH] cleanup of partition code Alexander Viro
2001-10-01  4:22 ` Erik Andersen
2001-10-01  5:27   ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-01  6:04     ` Erik Andersen
2001-10-01  6:48       ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2001-10-01  8:03       ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-01  9:06         ` Nick Craig-Wood
2001-10-01 21:11           ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-01 23:15         ` Erik Andersen
2001-10-02 21:49 Matt_Domsch

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