Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: bio too big device | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:14:19 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > I am not quite sure I understand your reasoning. > > We have seen *zero* drives that do not understand 256 sector commands. > > Maybe such drives exist, but so far there is zero evidence. > > Have you read the thread? You are obviously mistaken.
I've read most of it, and as far as I can see the problem is that one drive is known to accept 256 sector commands and occasionally fail on them. Since that is obviously broken behavior, I don't see how it can possibly even be suggested that we reduce the performance of possibly every other hard disk in use[1] just to compensate for it.
[1] Note that the known broken disk is 700 MB one, so there probably aren't many in use anyway.
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