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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 09:54:33 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To: Anil kumar <anils_r@...oo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: blk_queue_hardsect_size 520-byte sector
On Thu, Jun 05 2008, Anil kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can I call blk_queue_hardsect_size in a driver and set it to 520-byte
> as hardware sector size. How does the kernel and block layers take
> the request, will it be in multiples of 520-bytes aligned or 512 bytes
> aligned?
No, Linux only supports power-of-2 hardware block sizes I'm afraid.
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Jens Axboe
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