Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:08:52 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IDE TCQ #4 |
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Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote: > >>Jens Axboe wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Apr 18 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote: >>> >>> >>>>BTW> Jens: Do you have any idea what the "sector chaing" in ide-cd is >>>>good for?! I would love to just get rid of it alltogether! >>> >>> >>>Sector chaining? Are you talking about the cdrom_read_intr() comments? >> >>Sorry I did mean sector caching. > > > That's for padding/caching sub-frame sized reads.
I tought the BIO layer did this alredy... Well it's a pain in the a** to deal with it. IDE-FLOPPY is passing packet commands through the request buffer but IDE-CD is passing them through request special field... argh!
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