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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:09:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix SCSI non-blocksize reads
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> Several SCSI drivers blindly do reads of size 1024 when trying to read
> the partition table.   This fails on Magneto Optical drives and similar
> odd devices with 2048 byte native sector sizes.  This patch fixes that
> so I can have partitions on my MO drive again (it lives on an Adaptec
> card at present and has 2048 byte sectors),

Please use the "block_size()" function instead of doing it by hand..

		Linus

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