Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:09:23 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix SCSI non-blocksize reads |
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Erik Andersen wrote: > > Several SCSI drivers blindly do reads of size 1024 when trying to read > the partition table. This fails on Magneto Optical drives and similar > odd devices with 2048 byte native sector sizes. This patch fixes that > so I can have partitions on my MO drive again (it lives on an Adaptec > card at present and has 2048 byte sectors),
Please use the "block_size()" function instead of doing it by hand..
Linus
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