Re: [PATCH] fix SCSI non-blocksize reads

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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> Several SCSI drivers blindly do reads of size 1024 when trying to read
> the partition table. This fails on Magneto Optical drives and similar
> odd devices with 2048 byte native sector sizes. This patch fixes that
> so I can have partitions on my MO drive again (it lives on an Adaptec
> card at present and has 2048 byte sectors),

Please use the "block_size()" function instead of doing it by hand..

                Linus

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