Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:24:46 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] off-by-1 error in ide-probe (2.4.x) |
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > Agreed. That would be a trivially easy bug in the firmware, limiting to > 255 sectors seems safer. > > Linus > > Yes, possibly. > I checked old standards, and see that "0 means 256 as a sector count" > is already in ATA-1.
Yes. But we could have some silly bug in the Linux drivers too, if some part of the driver reads back the sector count and doesn't do the 0==256 conversion. So let's not blame the disk quite yet. Although it would be interesting to hear if the problem only happens for a specific disk or manufacturer...
Linus
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