Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:52:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: IDE from current bk tree, UDMA and two channels... |
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > Uh-oh... > > > > Let me see if I got it straight: > > > > a) your disk doesn't work with half-Kb requests > > b) you have a partition with odd number of sectors > > c) hardsect_size is set to half-Kb > > d) old code worked since it rounded size to multiple of kilobyte. > > > > Correct? > > Yes, exactly. Replacing disk is not an option...
OK. At the very least we need a way for driver to tell what the sector size is. And that can be a problem - AFAICS IDE shares the queue for master and slave and sector size is queue property.
BTW, what type of partition table do you have there?
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