Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 07 May 2003 23:03:30 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2003-05-07 at 22:45, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes: > > >I dunno what the purpose of that would be exactly, I guess to cater to > >some hardware odditites? > > Wild guess: You can use larger transfer sizes with the 48 bit > interface, even when adressing the lower 28 bit space?
The ide-disk logic Jens did already switches to LBA48 for large requests as well as requests high up on the disk
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