Jens Axboe wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
We could perhaps do it by ATA version - 255 for ATA < 3 256 for ATA 3+,
Might be sane, yep.
Since we're doing this just for paranoia, and nobody can actually
produce a problem case, it's safer just to hardcode 255 for all cases,
than try to come up with a hueristic that won't be exercised for another
decade...
Most new disks are lba48 anyway. (should we use 65535 there too???)
Jeff
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