Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@intermeta.de)
Wed, 7 May 2003 21:45:31 +0000 (UTC)

Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:

>I dunno what the purpose of that would be exactly, I guess to cater to
>some hardware odditites?

Wild guess: You can use larger transfer sizes with the 48 bit
interface, even when adressing the lower 28 bit space?

This might be a win for applications that stream large contigous
blocks from/to a HD (Video, Audio...)

Regards
Henning

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