Re: bio too big device

Andries Brouwer (aebr@win.tue.nl)
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:44:40 +0100


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:

> So I still think it's much better stick with the safe choice. Why do you
> think it's only one drive that has this bug? It basically boils down to
> whether That Other OS uses 256 sector commands or not. If it doesn't, I
> wouldn't trust the drives one bit.

I am not quite sure I understand your reasoning.
We have seen *zero* drives that do not understand 256 sector commands.
Maybe such drives exist, but so far there is zero evidence.

Andries

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