On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:27:29 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote: > > Does it simply fail? Or does it corrupt? > > > > In my Windows experience, if you try to write data past ~128GiB and > > you don't have LBA48 support you get a wraparound effect that causes > > corruption of the data below ~128GiB. I've seen it happen several > > times under Win2K in particular. > > It will probably wrap and corrupt data. The driver is already marked > HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. Do you think we need bigger hammer Probably if the driver has set the no lba48 flag and the drive is > 128GB we need to clip the reported size of the volume and/or print a message and skip it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
