On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:04 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:10:30AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > Do you know if this problem is being or has been addressed upstream? Just
> > curious...
>
> The cases I know about are fixed in -ac thus in RHEL4, Centos and FC3 but
> not FC4. One reason for asking if FC3 works is to make sure its all covered
> by that one fix set. Unfortunately the IDE upstream maintainer doesn't seem
> to be interested in that or the security holes with pcmcia ide in the base
> kernel (also fixed in -ac)
Is reading the end of the disk the issue you've been alluding to? In
particular, prefetching past the de-iced area?
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Peter