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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 28bit it is a free for all, and anything goes in linux because nobody is
> willing to commit and force anything over 8.4GB to LBA only.  People think
> that "orphan sectors" are a bad thing.  IFF one can only IO in LBA with
> the exception of sectors at or below the 8.4GB limit then one never needs
> to worry about rogue programs existing out in nowhere land.


libata requires LBA support, and always uses LBA addressing <grin>

	Jeff



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