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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage
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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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