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Originally Posted by patrik
@Olaf:
Will a MaxTransfer fix be included for the A600, A1200 and A4000 scsi.device? With fix I mean internally splitting transfers in 0x1fe00 large chunks and not relying on the deprecated ATA1 functionality.
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Sorry, this is an area in which I must defer to Thomas. Short of tinkering with the less pleasant bits of the partitioning tools, I prefer to steer clear of the mass storage complex (there's probably a reason why "mass" and "mess" sound alike). My brain very nearly exploded when I researched how HDToolBox and scsi.device/hddisk.device of old would interact with the ST-506 interface devices.
That said, these limitations definitely should be respected by the IDE scsi.device, because just about nobody seems to bother checking the MaxTransfer properties of volumes, even if these are properly configured for a change. Some file systems do their best, but you cannot expect data recovery or disk copy software to be as diligent.