> Since I assume that qemu code base is wide spread and if a workaround > is not too ugly I think it would be nice if the kernel handled that. Qemu behaves exactly the same way as a broken device in a situation where data corruption may occur. It would be extremely bad to remove sanity checking in storage subsystems just to deal with a silly bug in an emulator. Alan - 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