From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: /dev/sda with 8 byte offset
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:03:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070926210359.GS8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46FAC72F.5020304@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:55:11PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Strange. I haven't heard of this before. From which vendor and model
> is the device, and do you know which chip is on its IDE bridge board?
I've seen it, all right. 8 bytes stuck in FIFO, pl3507 IDE bridge,
and judging by google search that turd is b0rken regardless of the
OS (along the lines of "works under Windows if you power-cycle it
once in about half an hour").
Suggested fix: use as a barf-bag; the authors of that thing certainly had
done that.
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2007-09-26 20:55 ` /dev/sda with 8 byte offset Stefan Richter
2007-09-26 21:03 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-09-27 6:45 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-27 7:42 ` Al Viro
2007-09-27 19:48 ` Stefan Rutzinger
2007-09-29 11:31 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-08 19:07 ` Stefan Rutzinger
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