Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2001 02:48:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [CFT][PATCH] cleanup of partition code |
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
> Here is what I normally see (in this case with 2.4.9-ac17):
> sda:<5>ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) > unable to read boot sectors / partition sectors > SCSI device sdb: 310352 2048-byte hdwr sectors (636 MB) > sdb: Write Protect is off > sdb:<5>ll_rw_block: device 08:10: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) > unable to read boot sectors / partition sectors
> Note the ll_rw_block msg from where the acorn stuff is not reading in units > of the physical sector size? Also notice the "unable to read..." msg, which > is where acorn chokes the partition table scanning...
Yes. I've finished converting this sucker and I think I understand what's going on there. Reliance on block size being <= 1024 seems to be a side effect of the implementation - not something fundamental. I'll try to feed the stuff you've sent into it and see if it works - new code shouldn't care about the block size.
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