cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c

[mjacob at freebsd.org]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <200609162121.k8GLL7rt005933 at repoman.freebsd.org>, Matt Jacob writes
> :
>> mjacob      2006-09-16 21:21:07 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    sys/cam/scsi         scsi_da.c
>>  Log:
>>  Don't allow attachment of disks that could cause GEOM to panic.
>
> The correct commit message would have been:
>
>   Don't allow attachment of disks which we couldn't possibly do I/O from.
>
> The problem is that there is a fixed upper limit for the I/O transfer
> sizes we support (this should be fixed) and if the sectorsize is
> larger, we're hosed.

Au contraire mon frere.... You can attach to the device and *then* set 
it's block size to something reasonable via mode select. Si