From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: avl@logic.at
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible bug in ide-disk.c (2.6.18.2 but also older)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:12:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061120181227.27847d67@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061120175721.GT6851@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:57:21 +0100
Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
> To me it now seems that my symptoms have twofold cause:
> -) misinterpretation of that drive's reported number of sectors.
The current code appears correct.
> -) accessing the last reported sector in search for a GPT.
The partition code triggers a 1K read for the last 512 bytes of the disk.
This breaks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-20 14:51 possible bug in ide-disk.c (2.6.18.2 but also older) Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-20 15:25 ` Alan
2006-11-20 16:56 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-20 17:28 ` Alan
2006-11-20 17:57 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-20 18:12 ` Alan [this message]
2006-11-21 11:51 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-21 12:06 ` Alan
2006-11-22 10:57 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-23 17:05 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 13:09 ` hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 13:30 ` Alan
2006-11-27 16:01 ` Allow turning off hpa-checking Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 16:33 ` Alan
2006-11-27 17:56 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 18:10 ` Alan
2006-11-27 18:29 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 19:59 ` Alan
2006-11-28 9:29 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-28 9:46 ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-28 12:09 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-28 12:24 ` Tejun Heo
2006-12-14 14:45 ` Andreas Leitgeb
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