Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:50:55 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: What's in libata-dev.git |
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Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11 2006, Alan Cox wrote: >> We could perhaps do it by ATA version - 255 for ATA < 3 256 for ATA 3+, > > Might be sane, yep.
Since we're doing this just for paranoia, and nobody can actually produce a problem case, it's safer just to hardcode 255 for all cases, than try to come up with a hueristic that won't be exercised for another decade...
Most new disks are lba48 anyway. (should we use 65535 there too???)
Jeff
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