Re: Access beyond end of device

["Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>]

Em Wed, 1 Aug 2007 01:12:26 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> escreveu:

| On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:15:46 -0300
| "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> wrote:
| 
| > Em Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:04:14 -0300
| > "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> escreveu:
| > 
| > |  Since I've started using the pata_via driver in 2.6.22, I'm getting
| > | zillions of these messages:
| > | 
| > | """
| > | attempt to access beyond end of device
| > | sda: rw=0, want=156367809, limit=156365903
| > | printk: 22 messages suppressed
| > | Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 78183872
| 
| Does your disk have a host protected area set and if so are you telling
| libata to disable it ?

 Ok, the disk has a host protected area and now I'm telling libata to
disable it.

 The error messages has disappeared.

 But... Is it safe to do it? I've read somewhere that the BIOS and
other softwares may use that area.

 Also, I remember that with the IDE driver I wasn't seeing that
messages, which means either: it was disabling it by default or
was just ignoring it.

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Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino