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SubjectRe: Off-by-one in both LIBATA and IDE drivers
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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