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SubjectRe: What's in libata-dev.git
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...

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Jens Axboe

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