From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: TJ <linux@tjworld.net>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] filesystem: Disk Errors at boot-time caused by probe of partitions
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:20:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C16AA5.7050808@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.vUjkpPQXmle+uox6D228qG85KCU@ifi.uio.no>
TJ wrote:
> From: TJ <linux@tjworld.net>
>
> Applies to: up-to and including 2.6.20-rc7
>
> This rare but critical bug has the potential to cause a hardware failure on disk drives by
> allowing the system to repeatedly attempt to seek to sectors beyond the end of the physical
> disk, causing sustained 'head banging'.
It seems pretty unlikely that telling a hard drive to seek past its
capacity would cause it to damage itself, that would be some pretty
moronic firmware. Though, you never know - if it's true, let me know
what kind of drives these are, so I know never to buy one :-)
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next parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-01 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.vUjkpPQXmle+uox6D228qG85KCU@ifi.uio.no>
2007-02-01 4:20 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-02-01 11:27 ` [PATCH 1/1] filesystem: Disk Errors at boot-time caused by probe of partitions TJ
2007-02-01 19:12 ` Phillip Susi
2007-02-01 20:42 ` Alan
2007-02-01 1:50 TJ
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-31 23:50 TJ
2007-02-01 22:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-01 22:47 ` Eric D. Mudama
2007-02-01 23:50 ` TJ
2007-02-02 0:10 ` Eric D. Mudama
2007-02-02 0:25 ` TJ
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