Subject: Linux-Development Digest #312
From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
Date:     Thu, 16 Dec 93 16:13:09 EST

Linux-Development Digest #312, Volume #1         Thu, 16 Dec 93 16:13:09 EST

Contents:
  Re: IDE block transfers?(was Re: 1542B and DSP3160 bad I/O Performance) (Mark Lord)

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From: mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Subject: Re: IDE block transfers?(was Re: 1542B and DSP3160 bad I/O Performance)
Date: 16 Dec 1993 18:01:49 GMT

In article <2eor79$695@fnnews.fnal.gov> rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov writes:
>Is there any work underway to get linux to be able to do block-transfer mode
>on IDE drives capable of it?  I peeked at the block devices code of 0.99.14,
>and it seems to absolutely not do anything of the sort... (1) how hard would
>it be to do, (2) would it be actually worthwhile under linux?, and (3) if
>I were to be so adventurous as to try to write such functionality into

Here is a set of patches to do what you want.  I developed these a few months
ago, but do not plan to incorporate them into the kernel as-is.  I would like
to completely rework hd.c first.. to fix the retry logic for safe operation
with multiple-sector transfers.

Enjoy.

-ml

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