From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>
Subject: Re: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:41:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq17ib4r0r8.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080729182611.GB24924@parisc-linux.org> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Tue\, 29 Jul 2008 12\:26\:11 -0600")
>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> writes:
Matthew> I'll admit to having not tested it with anything other than
Matthew> 512, but it ought to support 4096 byte sectors just fine. I
Matthew> haven't looked at what would be required to support 520-byte
Matthew> sectors.
I recently added multiple sector support to scsi_debug. On a recent
kernel you can modprobe scsi_debug sector_size=4096.
I have only tested 4KB but it also supports 1 and 2KB.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-07-29 18:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-29 18:37 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-29 18:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-29 18:44 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-29 18:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-29 19:00 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-29 18:48 ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-07-29 18:54 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-07-29 18:56 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-29 23:41 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-07-30 13:51 ` Matt Domsch
2008-07-30 17:16 ` Jim Meyering
2008-07-30 17:29 ` Matt Domsch
2008-07-30 17:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-30 18:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-30 18:28 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-07-30 18:45 ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-09 13:21 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-01 16:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-05 16:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-05 16:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-05 16:57 ` Matt Domsch
2008-07-30 5:51 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-07-29 18:41 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2008-07-29 21:54 ` Jeff Garzik
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