Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:30:48 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Off-by-one in both LIBATA and IDE drivers |
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Norman Diamond wrote: > Jim Paris wrote: >> Norman Diamond wrote: >>> >>> It looks like both LIBATA and the old IDE drivers have an off-by-one >>> error in deciding whether to use READ SECTOR(S) instead of READ >>> SECTOR(S) EXT. >> >> This was fixed here: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=97b697a11b07e2ebfa69c488132596cc5eb24119 >> > > I'm still having trouble after applying the same patch to 2.6.24.3 > (applying it three times in order to build Slax). But now I wonder if > it's no longer the fault of drivers. > > Does hdparm construct its own taskfiles for ATA and SATA in order to > produce an error trying to read sector number 0x0fffffff even after I > patched the kernel? ..
What, *exactly*, do you mean there. Yes, hdparm constructs its own taskfiles for the --read-sector subcommand. Are you hitting these errors with the latest hdparm (9.12)?
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