On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:12:42 -0500 Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think you may be barking up the wrong tree because IIRC, these > requests for data beyond the end of the disk never make it to the drive; > the kernel fails them in the block layer. There was a patch a while > back to fix the partition detection code to NOT request sectors beyond > the end of the disk, but I don't think it was ever merged. ide-scsi and libata support this correctly. Ingo Molnar also ported the recent CD changes related to size handling. None of these are relevant to hard disks > In any case, if you are sure the requests are making it to the drive and > causing damage, I hope you give Maxtor and IBM a sound thrashing for > using retarded firmware. All the IBM and Maxtor drives I've played with correctly error when a sector isn't available. It's pretty implausible they would do otherwise as the "sector" is a logically mapping onto the drives internal file system these days. Fed a wrong sector any drive I know of will report that the sector cannot be found. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/