Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 25 May 2001 16:46:15 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8 |
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On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Hal Duston wrote: > > > http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4 > > > > Hal Duston > > hald@sound.net > > You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max sectors for your > driver - old default used to be 128, currently 255 (which maybe > hardware can handle ok?) - the xd and hd drivers were broken until > a similar fix was added to them. > > Probably makes sense for driver to set it regardless, seeing > as default (MAX_SECTORS) has changed several times over last > few months. At least then it will be under driver control > and not at the mercy of some global value.
You might want to assign that max_sect array too, otherwise it's just going to waste space :-)
Take a look at how ps2esdi handles requests -- always processing just the first segment. Alas, it doesn't matter how big the request is.
-- Jens Axboe
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