Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965195AbWILFYa (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:24:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965202AbWILFYa (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:24:30 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([62.242.22.158]:19542 "EHLO kernel.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965193AbWILFY3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:24:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:22:45 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Sergei Shtylyov , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: What's in libata-dev.git Message-ID: <20060912052245.GE10409@kernel.dk> References: <45056627.7030202@ru.mvista.com> <450566A2.1090009@garzik.org> <450568F3.3020005@ru.mvista.com> <1157986974.23085.147.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45057651.8000404@garzik.org> <1157988513.23085.159.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060911153706.GE4955@suse.de> <20060911195106.GA6775@kernel.dk> <1158015636.23085.218.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1158015636.23085.218.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 935 Lines: 23 On Tue, Sep 12 2006, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 21:51 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jens Axboe: > > Well, as I said, I don't think we ever saw a case that was demonstrably > > due to the 256 sector issue. And I really don't think it is as obscure a > > fact that people seem to think it is. > > One of the ones I've got saved here is this thread. Paul goes on to > demonstrate that changing the 255<->256 limit makes 2.0/2.2/2.4 break or > not break. I remember Paul's mails, and I'm pretty sure that the 256 sectors wasn't the issue. This is one of the only cases I remember being reported to lkml, unfortunately I cannot seem to locate the 2nd part of that thread... -- Jens Axboe - 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/