Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:25:05 +0000 | From | Alan <> | Subject | Re: possible bug in ide-disk.c (2.6.18.2 but also older) |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:51:48 +0100 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
> Since I got not even a beep as answer, I'm trying again > to get this through to someone who cares:
Sounds like the Knoppix kernel is built with GPT partition handling and your disk has an odd number of sectors ?
> The problem is in idedisk_read_native_max_address() > and equivalently in idedisk_read_native_max_address_ext() > in a line like this (near the end): > addr++; /* since the return value is (maxlba - 1), we add 1 */ > > I believe that this is wrong, in so far as it is device-specific.
Which part of the standard are you referring to here ?
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