Re: [PATCH] fix for ide-scsi crash

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 08:57:30 EST


On Mon, Jan 19 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Andrew, you can drop the atapi-mo-support patches from -mm if you
> > like. That patch only works with 2048 byte sector discs, while
> > the ide-scsi/sd solution also works with 512 and 1024 byte sector
> > discs.
>
> I'd really like the ATA cdrom driver to handle different sector sizes
> properly. There really is no excuse for a block device driver to hardcode
> its blocksize if it can avoid it.

Agree, it's a bug. Pascal, care to take a stab at fixing it? You're the
most avid ide-cd non-2kb block size user at the moment :)

--
Jens Axboe

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