Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:53:35 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
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       Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: "Fix ATAPI transfer lengths" causes CD writing regression
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> demonstrated by (a) Alan's patch did not change DMA lbam/lbah 
> programming and (b) Daniel's report of the message "ata2.00: 66 bytes 

(a) did. Well the original did, dunno about your version.

> I am not drawing any conclusions yet, but I'm thinking that blimit=8k 
> may be a better choice for SATA ATAPI.

Only if your transfer is actually 8K or more.


Alan
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