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SubjectRe: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes
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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