TJ wrote:
From: TJ <[email protected]>
Applies to: up-to and including 2.6.20-rc7
This rare but critical bug has the potential to cause a hardware failure on disk drives by
allowing the system to repeatedly attempt to seek to sectors beyond the end of the physical
disk, causing sustained 'head banging'.
It seems pretty unlikely that telling a hard drive to seek past its
capacity would cause it to damage itself, that would be some pretty
moronic firmware. Though, you never know - if it's true, let me know
what kind of drives these are, so I know never to buy one :-)
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