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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] filesystem: Disk Errors at boot-time caused by probe of partitions
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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