From: Marcelo Penna Guerra <eu@marcelopenna.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SII SATA request size limit
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:07:23 -0300
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Alan Cox escreveu:

> It isnt that simple, unfortunately you need an NDA for the full story.
> If you want to check which chips need it get a setup that hangs reliably
> with large transfers, put the same disks on a newer controller that
> doesnt and see what happens

So, shouldn't we go back to my suggestion? A lot of users won't know that this 
limit is being set and telling them on boot time would be a good thing I 
think.

And I still don't know how to set this limit back to 128 with 2.6.x kernels. 
It can't be done the same way as in 2.4.x, can it?

Marcelo Penna Guerra
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