Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:46:39 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kill HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl |
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Andre Hedrick wrote: > 28bit it is a free for all, and anything goes in linux because nobody is > willing to commit and force anything over 8.4GB to LBA only. People think > that "orphan sectors" are a bad thing. IFF one can only IO in LBA with > the exception of sectors at or below the 8.4GB limit then one never needs > to worry about rogue programs existing out in nowhere land.
libata requires LBA support, and always uses LBA addressing <grin>
Jeff
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