On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:40:13AM +1100, Burn Alting wrote: > allocates paged aligned memory and then forms a 512 block write to > location 1 on the target. Directly after a reboot of the kernel, > the ioctl() write to /dev/sda works, but the next time it fails > with an EINVAL result. This is an expected and known limitation of the ioctl interface currently.