Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:54:03 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes |
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Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:24:31PM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: >> Jim pinged me about the use case for having our tool chain (parted >> specifically) support devices with non-512 bytes sectors. > > Matt Domsch spoke with me about this at OLS. I took that opportunity, > and I'll take this one, to pimp my ata-ram driver which allows you to > alter the sector sizse to whatever you want: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git;a=shortlog;h=ata-ram > > I'll admit to having not tested it with anything other than 512, but it > ought to support 4096 byte sectors just fine. I haven't looked at what > would be required to support 520-byte sectors. > > Jeff, any interest in merging ata-ram soon? I've got some users inside > Intel, and Zab persuaded me to add the multiple port support last night, > so it's not just useful for me. I think it's also a nice template to > have around to show how to write a minimal libata driver.
I'm happy to include ata_ram whenever it is working and you think it's ready for inclusion.
Jeff
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