----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc SCHAEFER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: alphanet.ml.linux.scsi
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:44 AM
Subject: Re: is (rscsi_disks[i].sector_size != 512) ok ?
> Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > They do. You need to tell them to use that block size sometimes. Eg
fdisk
> > needs to be told to use 1K block scaling
>
> > > SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 9 lun 0 return code = 8000002
> > > Info fld=0x10f5a9c, Current sd08:01: sense key Illegal Request
>
> > or you run off the end of the disk 8)
>
> Question: there is really nothing which prevents bad SCSI commands
> to be sent out ? I was thinking that as READ_CAPACITY is used to
> initialize the /dev/sda size, sub-partitions of /dev/sda might never
> be bigger than the whole.
Yes, this is already happening.
> Shouldn't it be a test in the ll_rw_blk() or otherwise that
> would cause the *kernel* to error, and not a SCSI command with
> illegal blocks to be send out ?
There already is such a test in sd.c. The commands in question should
never make it out to the device. This is why I suspect that the data for
READ_CAPACITY is being reported incorrectly.
-Eric
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