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Driver porting: the BIO structure

Driver porting: the BIO structure

Posted Apr 16, 2004 8:49 UTC (Fri) by rf (guest, #20877)
Parent article: Driver porting: the BIO structure

Hello,

I would like to read from a device more as 8 sectors on one time.

somebody has an idea ?

thanks.


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Driver porting: the BIO structure

Posted Apr 16, 2004 14:49 UTC (Fri) by rf (guest, #20877) [Link]

reading from device with struct bio goes well, but if the read-size is bigger as 16K => 32 sectoren it fails.... (32K, 64K , 128K)
I get an error.

Here I must reboot.


what is the reason for that?

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