Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:45:03 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Checking a USB drive's capacity |
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:33:09 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > spun up yet. Not to mention that it seems strange to read the last > > > sector before reading the first! > > > > The SCSI CD code deals with this by spotting the error is close to the > > end and of particular types then interpreting it and adjusting the volume > > size. This is done because the size value for a CD-R/RW is imprecise. > > Although it may be okay for CDs, I suspect that approach won't work for > disks.
Some of the partition formats do indeed go looking for the end of disk so it won't work in that case.
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