Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:11:45 +0200 | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: IDE from current bk tree, UDMA and two channels... |
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Uz.ytkownik Alexander Viro napisa?: > > 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.
Wrong. It is sharing the queue lock not the queue itself.
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