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SubjectRe: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:41:57AM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> What I meant to say was that I know ATA supports 4 KB LBS and that
> nobody appears to care about it.

I sent patches to add support ... they were ignored.

Part of the problem is that ATA is heinously broken wrt non-512 byte
sector sizes. You have to know which commands work in multiples of
the block size, and which commands work in multiples of 512-bytes.
There's no easy way to figure it out; you need a table.

--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."


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