From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Dharm Subject: Re: Feiya 5-in-1 Card Reader Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:57:28 -0700 Sender: linux-usb-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20020904165728.P13478@one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20020904161042.O13478@one-eyed-alien.net> <20020904234653.GB10227@win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AwNVUpjOmSj7UnwZ" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020904234653.GB10227@win.tue.nl>; from aebr@win.tue.nl on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:46:53AM +0200 Errors-To: linux-usb-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org --AwNVUpjOmSj7UnwZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Well, that's the best answer I've gotten so far. I guess the patch can go in. Matt On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:46:53AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: >=20 > > I'm trying to find out why Windows doesn't choke on the strange > > READ_CAPACITY value. >=20 > That is an easy one. > It belongs to the recent partitioning discussion on l-k. >=20 > Windows knows the type of partition table, so reads the > partition table and the boot sector and the FAT and is happy. >=20 > Linux tries various things, depending on how you compiled your kernel, > and among other things also needs to examine the last sector. > So, only Linux will do bad things in case the capacity is off by one, > and only when your config includes partitioning types that use this > last sector. --=20 Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.= net=20 Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver I don't have a left mouse button. I only have one mouse and it's on my rig= ht. -- Customer User Friendly, 2/13/1999 --AwNVUpjOmSj7UnwZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9dp3oIjReC7bSPZARAmQGAJ9+Ev7EaANlreCGQYBEK5hGoiY6pACg0vnN BdKpDRqrr0OaZLFsgg6Z20I= =zdRR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AwNVUpjOmSj7UnwZ-- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel