Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: 2.0.34pre6 | | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 1998 22:58:16 +0100 (BST) |
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> Would you be interested in an update to prevent IDE UltraDMA > from frying people's filesystems in 2.0.xx ?
This sounds an extremely good idea ;) How is support for >8Gig units btw ?
> It seems that enough people now have these units, > and they are completely unsafe with older kernels (2.0.xx). > > [UltraDMA "reused" a status bit that used to mean "bad block", > but now means "CRC error, retry transfer". Linux 2.0.xx just > gives up when it sees "bad block", since it "knows" that it > cannot do anything about a bad block.. very painful. ]
That shows a little sense on the ultradma folks part. It does at least fail in a way windows will do a retry, abort, crash horribly at you
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