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On Sunday 28 of March 2004 09:23, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > Hi Jeff. > > >> What will happen when a PATA disk lies behind a Marvel(ous) bridge, as > >> in most SATA disks today? > > > > Larger transfers work fine in PATA, too. > > Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the max number of sectors in a > transfer limited to 255 instead of 256 because there were buggy > drives out there before ? I seem to recall something like that but > I could be wrong. There was 255 sectors limit in IDE driver but it was based only on _one_ bugreport on _unreliable_ drive (256 sectors causes heavier I/O load). AFAIR "the other OS" is using 256 sectors so this value is safe. Regards, Bartlomiej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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