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SubjectRe: What's in libata-dev.git
Hello.

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The following libata changes are queued for 2.6.19:
>
> General
> -------
> * Increase lba28 max sectors from 200 to 256

[...]

> Jeff Garzik:
[...]
> [ATA] Increase lba48 max-sectors from 200 to 256.

So was it for LBA28 or for LBA48?
As for LBA28, it might be quite dangerous. Particularly, I know that IBM
drives used to mistreated 256 as 0 in the past (bumped into that on a 8-year
old drive which is still alive though).

WBR, Sergei
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