On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:51:16PM +0530, Karthik Sarangan wrote:
> open("/dev/sdb", O_DIRECT) succeeds.
> A 'read' or 'write' returns -1 and errno is EINVAL.
You must align your buffer to at least sector size. See
posix_memalign(3).
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