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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
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Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] cleanup of partition code
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:

> Here is what I normally see (in this case with 2.4.9-ac17):

> 	 sda:<5>ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
> 	 unable to read boot sectors / partition sectors
> 	SCSI device sdb: 310352 2048-byte hdwr sectors (636 MB)
> 	sdb: Write Protect is off
> 	 sdb:<5>ll_rw_block: device 08:10: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
> 	 unable to read boot sectors / partition sectors
 
> Note the ll_rw_block msg from where the acorn stuff is not reading in units
> of the physical sector size?  Also notice the "unable to read..." msg, which
> is where acorn chokes the partition table scanning...

Yes.  I've finished converting this sucker and I think I understand what's
going on there.  Reliance on block size being <= 1024 seems to be a
side effect of the implementation - not something fundamental.  I'll
try to feed the stuff you've sent into it and see if it works - new
code shouldn't care about the block size.

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