Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: BUG in the block layer (partial reads not reported) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:14:43 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2005-10-24 at 00:12 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Seems to me that the best fix for devices that may re�port the wrong size > is to always use a foolproof way of determining the size. I.e. when > a CD-R cannot be trusted, determine the size by trying to read the > last sectors instead of using the reported number.
That may take up to half a minute on some CD drives that retry a lot - 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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