Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: bio too big device | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:05:04 +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. > > That is definitely not true. We definitely _have_ had drives that > misconstrue the 256-sector case. It's been a long time, but they > definitely exist. > > The right limit for IDE is 255 sectors, and doing 256 sectors WILL fail > on some setups.
Couldn't we have a list of known good drives, though, and enable 256 sectors as a special case?
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