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Message-ID: <45056627.7030202@ru.mvista.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:35:35 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: What's in libata-dev.git

Hello.

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The following libata changes are queued for 2.6.19:
> 
> General
> -------
> * Increase lba28 max sectors from 200 to 256

[...]

> Jeff Garzik:
[...]
>       [ATA] Increase lba48 max-sectors from 200 to 256.

    So was it for LBA28 or for LBA48?
    As for LBA28, it might be quite dangerous. Particularly, I know that IBM 
drives used to mistreated 256 as 0 in the past (bumped into that on a 8-year 
old drive which is still alive though).

WBR, Sergei
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