libata: add support for READ/WRITE LONG
authorMark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:22:26 +0000 (10:22 -0400)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:16:01 +0000 (14:16 -0400)
The READ/WRITE LONG commands are theoretically obsolete,
but the majority of drives in existance still implement them.

The WRITE_LONG and WRITE_LONG_ONCE commands are of particular
interest for fault injection testing -- eg. creating "media errors"
at specific locations on a disk.

The fussy bit is that these commands require a non-standard
sector size, usually 520 bytes instead of 512.

This patch adds support to libata for READ/WRITE LONG commands
issued via SG_IO/ATA_16.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

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