Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Thu, 8 May 2003 14:01:45 +0200


On Thu, May 08 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 08:56, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > That part is added, I still kept it at 65535 though akin to how we don't
> > use that last sector in 28-bit commands either. For 48-bit commands this
> > is totally irelevant, 32MiB or 32MiB-512b doesn't matter either way.
>
> Actually I changed the LBA28 code to use the last sector a while ago. It
> has (unsuprisingly) caused zero problems because other OS's also
> generate such requests.

That's great, if you remember that was my requirement for usage of the
last sector, that the Other OS used it. If it does, it can't be buggy.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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