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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.5.3-pre1-aia1
    On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:12:36PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:

    > > > > We only read out 4k thus the device has the the next 4k we may be wanting
    > > > > ready. Look at it as a dirty prefetch, but eventally the drive is going
    > > > > to want to go south, thus [lost interrupt]
    > > >
    > > > Even if the drive is programmed for 16 sectors in multi mode, it still
    > > > must honor lower transfer sizes. The fix I did was not to limit this,
    > > > but rather to only setup transfers for the amount of sectors in the
    > > > first chunk. This is indeed necessary now that we do not have a copy of
    > > > the request to fool around with.
    >
    > Listen and for just a second okay.
    >
    > Since the set multimode command is similar to the set transfer rate, if
    > you program the drive to run at U100 but the host can feed only U33 you
    > have problems. Much of this simple arguement is the same answer for
    > multimode.
    >
    > Same thing here but a variation, of the operations,

    So you're saying that if you program the drive to multimode 16, you
    can't read a single sector and always have to read 16? That not only
    doesn't make sense to me, but it also contradicts anything that I've
    heard before.

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    Vojtech Pavlik
    SuSE Labs
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