Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:57:28 -0700 | From | Matthew Dharm <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Feiya 5-in-1 Card Reader |
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Well, that's the best answer I've gotten so far.
I guess the patch can go in.
Matt
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:46:53AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > I'm trying to find out why Windows doesn't choke on the strange > > READ_CAPACITY value. > > That is an easy one. > It belongs to the recent partitioning discussion on l-k. > > Windows knows the type of partition table, so reads the > partition table and the boot sector and the FAT and is happy. > > Linux tries various things, depending on how you compiled your kernel, > and among other things also needs to examine the last sector. > So, only Linux will do bad things in case the capacity is off by one, > and only when your config includes partitioning types that use this > last sector.
-- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver
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