[lug] 256 byte sector support.

[Dave Pitts]

Well:

After doing some digging through the SCSI driver, sd.c, I see that the 
256 byte sector code was removed sometime between 2.6.39 and 3.18.79 
(the versions that I currently have downloaded source for). So, it 
appears that these disks are no longer supported in any form. This is a 
bummer for me as I'll take old systems disks for people and offload the 
code and images. I guess I'll have to keep an old CentOS 5 system in the 
corner for this purpose...

> From: Zan Lynx<zlynx at acm.org>
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> 	<lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Subject: Re: [lug] 256 byte sector support.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=134001
>
> That looks like a similar issue. It was never fixed in Fedora. It apparently applies to the SCSI emulation of some types of USB storage devices, like SD cards. Really old ones. 2 MB? Really?

> From:stimits at comcast.net
> Sent: Saturday, November 4, 2017 12:51 PM
> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [lug] 256 byte sector support.
>
> I don't know, but I am curious. What was the old config for this? I've only heard of a physical address block size of 512 bytes or more, and logical block addressing of 512 bytes or multiples. It is the idea of a block device being less than 512 bytes which I am wondering about...what is this device? How is it connected, e.g., is it SATA, PCIe, M.2?

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