Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:47:31 +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 >> >> >> [...] >> >>> 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).
> That's a typo. The first description ("lba28") is correct.
> Let me know if your IBM drive has problems with current > libata-dev.git#upstream...
It's not likely I'll be able to try it. But I'm absolutely sure that drive aborted the read commands with the sector count of 0 (i.e. 256 actually). The exact model was IBM DHEA-34331. 255 sectors actually seems more safe bet.
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