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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix SCSI non-blocksize reads
On Thu Nov 22, 2001 at 09:09:23AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
> >
> > Several SCSI drivers blindly do reads of size 1024 when trying to read
> > the partition table. This fails on Magneto Optical drives and similar
> > odd devices with 2048 byte native sector sizes. This patch fixes that
> > so I can have partitions on my MO drive again (it lives on an Adaptec
> > card at present and has 2048 byte sectors),
>
> Please use the "block_size()" function instead of doing it by hand..

Ok. I just did it the same way most of the other SCSI drivers
do this...

Would you like a patch that also fixes all the other SCSI drivers
to use block_size() then, so they will be consistent?

-Erik

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