On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:12:42 -0500
Phillip Susi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you may be barking up the wrong tree because IIRC, these
> requests for data beyond the end of the disk never make it to the drive;
> the kernel fails them in the block layer. There was a patch a while
> back to fix the partition detection code to NOT request sectors beyond
> the end of the disk, but I don't think it was ever merged.
ide-scsi and libata support this correctly. Ingo Molnar also ported the
recent CD changes related to size handling. None of these are relevant to
hard disks
> In any case, if you are sure the requests are making it to the drive and
> causing damage, I hope you give Maxtor and IBM a sound thrashing for
> using retarded firmware.
All the IBM and Maxtor drives I've played with correctly error when a
sector isn't available. It's pretty implausible they would do otherwise
as the "sector" is a logically mapping onto the drives internal file
system these days.
Fed a wrong sector any drive I know of will report that the sector cannot
be found.
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