Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: how to limit number of sectors each time | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:47:00 +0200 |
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[ added linux-ide@ to cc:, please use it for ATA questions ]
On Thursday 16 October 2008, gshan wrote: > > > (please never send out html only emails, it's considered very bad style > > on this list) > > > > Sounds like you need a quirk/blacklist entry for that drive, if it > > doesn't support 0x00 as meaning 256 sectors. If you are using libata, > > you can add a ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_128 entry to ata_device_blacklist[] in > > drivers/ata/libata-core.c > > > I'm using IDE driver instead of HD driver.
Then you need to add check for this device to ide_disk_setup() (prior to blk_queue_max_sectors() call) in drivers/ide/ide-disk.c.
Thanks, Bart
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