Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:35:35 +0400 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: What's in libata-dev.git |
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Hello.
Jeff Garzik wrote: > The following libata changes are queued for 2.6.19: > > General > ------- > * Increase lba28 max sectors from 200 to 256
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> 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).
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