Alan wrote: > > A ZIP or similar with unformatted media will cause crashes when attempts > are made to read/write it in some cases. This is because bs_factor is > zero and we divide by it causing an oops. > > As the size of a non-accessible/non-existant media is really a bit of a > zen question it doesn't matter if non-existant media is 512 bytes per > sector or zero. Setting it to 1 causes us to generate 512 bytes/sector > accesses and error properly. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> applied, thanks > Based on a fix found lurking in an ancient bugzilla entry since about > 2004 (ugghhh) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
