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Why does Marvell 88SX6081 controller always work with 4 sectors per block for Read/Write Multiple even if it is to more than 4 sectors per block?

April 26, 2017block controller marvell read sectors write

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Why does Marvell 88SX6081 controller always work with 4 sectors per block for Read/Write Multiple even if it is to more than 4 sectors per block?

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If you are testing on Marvell 88SX6081 controller and multiword set to 8 or above, then DriveMaster will convert it to multiword 4. This is a feature we added in order to work around the controller’s known issue.