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Message-ID: <450585DF.1080500@garzik.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:50:55 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de>
CC: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>,
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
Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
>> We could perhaps do it by ATA version - 255 for ATA < 3 256 for ATA 3+,
>
> Might be sane, yep.
Since we're doing this just for paranoia, and nobody can actually
produce a problem case, it's safer just to hardcode 255 for all cases,
than try to come up with a hueristic that won't be exercised for another
decade...
Most new disks are lba48 anyway. (should we use 65535 there too???)
Jeff
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