Re: "Fix ATAPI transfer lengths" causes CD writing regression

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Nov 01 2007 - 06:53:19 EST


> demonstrated by (a) Alan's patch did not change DMA lbam/lbah
> programming and (b) Daniel's report of the message "ata2.00: 66 bytes

(a) did. Well the original did, dunno about your version.

> I am not drawing any conclusions yet, but I'm thinking that blimit=8k
> may be a better choice for SATA ATAPI.

Only if your transfer is actually 8K or more.


Alan
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