Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750761AbWIKNpW (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:45:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750785AbWIKNpV (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:45:21 -0400 Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:4403 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750761AbWIKNpT (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:45:19 -0400 Message-ID: <450568F3.3020005@ru.mvista.com> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:47:31 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: What's in libata-dev.git References: <20060911132250.GA5178@havoc.gtf.org> <45056627.7030202@ru.mvista.com> <450566A2.1090009@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <450566A2.1090009@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1163 Lines: 40 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... It's not likely I'll be able to try it. But I'm absolutely sure that drive aborted the read commands with the sector count of 0 (i.e. 256 actually). The exact model was IBM DHEA-34331. 255 sectors actually seems more safe bet. WBR, Sergei - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/