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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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