Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 17:47 +0400, ysgrifennodd Sergei Shtylyov:It's not likely I'll be able to try it. But I'm absolutely sure that drive aborted the read commands with the sector count of 0 (i.e. 256 actually). The exact model was IBM DHEA-34331.
Several people reported this problem when we tried 256 years ago in
drivers/ide. You might want to do 256 for SATA Jeff but please don't do
256 for PATA. Reading specs is too hard for some people ;)
Some drives abort the xfer, some just choked.