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authorTony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>2007-10-30 11:44:35 -0400
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2007-11-03 08:46:54 -0400
commitf8d8e5799b75cf7ad530d2bf2a42229bf7360526 (patch)
treef5094c82ca94ff1bdfbca4e7be69bfed7db5ccdd /drivers
parent03116d67e0973bb493fe9307e28973a24a272bcc (diff)
libata: increase 128 KB / cmd limit for ATAPI tape drives
Commands sent to ATAPI tape drives via the SCSI generic (sg) driver are limited in the amount of data that they can transfer by the max_sectors value. The max_sectors value is currently calculated according to the command set for disk drives, which doesn't apply to tape drives. The default max_sectors value of 256 limits ATAPI tape drive commands to 128 KB. This patch against 2.6.24-rc1 increases the max_sectors value for tape drives to 65535, which permits tape drive commands to transfer just under 32 MB. Tested with a SuperMicro PDSME motherboard, AHCI, and a Sony SDX-570V SATA tape drive. Note that some of the chipset drivers also set their own max_sectors value, which may override the value set in libata-core. I don't have any of these chipsets to test, so I didn't go messing with them. Also, ATAPI devices other than tape drives may benefit from similar changes, but I have only tape drives and disk drives to test. Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/libata-core.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index 4dc6befa576..24b3bd63621 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -2304,6 +2304,10 @@ int ata_dev_configure(struct ata_device *dev)
dev->max_sectors = ATA_MAX_SECTORS;
}
+ if ((dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI) &&
+ (atapi_command_packet_set(id) == TYPE_TAPE))
+ dev->max_sectors = ATA_MAX_SECTORS_TAPE;
+
if (dev->horkage & ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_128)
dev->max_sectors = min_t(unsigned int, ATA_MAX_SECTORS_128,
dev->max_sectors);