On 04/08/2010 02:52 AM, Mark Lord wrote: > Most drives from Seagate, Hitachi, and possibly other brands, > do not allow LBA28 access to sector number 0x0fffffff (2^28 - 1). > So instead use LBA48 for such accesses. > > This bug could bite a lot of systems, especially when the user has > taken care to align partitions to 4KB boundaries. On misaligned systems, > it is less likely to be encountered, since a 4KB read would end at > 0x10000000 rather than at 0x0fffffff. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx> Heh, yeah, killing the cast works too. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
