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Re: WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48



On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:31:34PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 
> Western Digital brings new disks to the market which
> use 4KByte sectors instead of 512 byte.

This problem has also been raised a long time ago, with magneto-optical
devices with 1k sectors. I think we still don't handle this
(and it's not a problem limited to the ata drivers, the upper levels
are affected too)

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