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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:37:38 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: What's in libata-dev.git
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Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> The following libata changes are queued for 2.6.19:
>>
>> General
>> -------
>> * Increase lba28 max sectors from 200 to 256
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Jeff Garzik:
> [...]
>>       [ATA] Increase lba48 max-sectors from 200 to 256.
> 
>    So was it for LBA28 or for LBA48?
>    As for LBA28, it might be quite dangerous. Particularly, I know that 
> IBM drives used to mistreated 256 as 0 in the past (bumped into that on 
> a 8-year old drive which is still alive though).

That's a typo.  The first description ("lba28") is correct.

Let me know if your IBM drive has problems with current 
libata-dev.git#upstream...

	Jeff


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