Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 14:41:23 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage |
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 02:01:45PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, May 08 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 08:56, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > That part is added, I still kept it at 65535 though akin to how we don't > > > use that last sector in 28-bit commands either. For 48-bit commands this > > > is totally irelevant, 32MiB or 32MiB-512b doesn't matter either way. > > > > Actually I changed the LBA28 code to use the last sector a while ago. It > > has (unsuprisingly) caused zero problems because other OS's also > > generate such requests. > > That's great, if you remember that was my requirement for usage of the > last sector, that the Other OS used it. If it does, it can't be buggy.
Yes, there is documentation in ntfs-tools about the kernel not being able to address the last sector like the Other OS does, and recommending to run chkdsk immediately after creating a new ntfs volume under Linux... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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