> > Uh-oh...
> >
> > Let me see if I got it straight:
> >
> > a) your disk doesn't work with half-Kb requests
> > b) you have a partition with odd number of sectors
> > c) hardsect_size is set to half-Kb
> > d) old code worked since it rounded size to multiple of kilobyte.
> >
> > Correct?
>
> Yes, exactly. Replacing disk is not an option...
OK. At the very least we need a way for driver to tell what the sector
size is. And that can be a problem - AFAICS IDE shares the queue for
master and slave and sector size is queue property.
BTW, what type of partition table do you have there?
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