Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:20:54 -0700 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix SCSI non-blocksize reads |
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On Thu Nov 22, 2001 at 09:09:23AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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..
Ok. I just did it the same way most of the other SCSI drivers do this...
Would you like a patch that also fixes all the other SCSI drivers to use block_size() then, so they will be consistent?
-Erik
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