Re: What's in libata-dev.git

[Jeff Garzik]

Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > The following libata changes are queued for 2.6.19:
> >
> > General
> > -------
> > * Increase lba28 max sectors from 200 to 256
>
> [...]
>
> > Jeff Garzik:
> [...]
> >       [ATA] Increase lba48 max-sectors from 200 to 256.
>
>    So was it for LBA28 or for LBA48?
>    As for LBA28, it might be quite dangerous. Particularly, I know that 
> IBM drives used to mistreated 256 as 0 in the past (bumped into that on 
> a 8-year old drive which is still alive though).

That's a typo.  The first description ("lba28") is correct.

Let me know if your IBM drive has problems with current 
libata-dev.git#upstream...

	Jeff



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