Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2001 - 12:34:01 EST


> for FAT etc when reading. Writing is a bit more difficult, as that
> then turns out to generate a read before we can commit a dirty
> block. IMO, this type of thing does not belong in the drivers --
> we should _never_ receive request for < hard block size.

Unfortunately someone ripped the support out from 2.2 to do this, then didnt
fix it. So right now 2.4 is useless to anyone with an M/O drive.

Alan

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