Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:20:53 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] filesystem: Disk Errors at boot-time caused by probe of partitions |
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TJ wrote: > From: TJ <linux@tjworld.net> > > Applies to: up-to and including 2.6.20-rc7 > > This rare but critical bug has the potential to cause a hardware failure on disk drives by > allowing the system to repeatedly attempt to seek to sectors beyond the end of the physical > disk, causing sustained 'head banging'.
It seems pretty unlikely that telling a hard drive to seek past its capacity would cause it to damage itself, that would be some pretty moronic firmware. Though, you never know - if it's true, let me know what kind of drives these are, so I know never to buy one :-)
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