Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 IDE 65

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 21 May 2002 19:49:30 +0100 (BST)


> Absolutely not. Even if Maxtor were to do a 2kB-sector disk, that only
> means that the md layer would have to make a 2kB-sector md device.
>
> We have the support for all of this already, as many (most?) SCSI CD-ROM's
> are 2kB-only.

We also support M/O disks. Ext2 fs with a block size >= the block size of
the media works well. 512byte FATfs needs loop. I've been using 2K media
on and off for a long time. Our design limit is page size.

It all works fine in 2.2 and 2.4
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