Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:32:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch for ATAng bug Message-ID: <200309080632.h886W4v0041506@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <16219.38485.513216.274862@canoe.dclg.ca>
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It seems David Gilbert wrote: > I submitted kern/56572 a few minutes ago. It patches ata-disk.c to > reject a disk that has zero blocks. > > This is a good thing ... malicious or broken disks (compact flash, > whatever) shouldn't crash machines. > > But in this case, the detected ad3 doesn't exist. The machine is a > laptop with a drive on channel 0 and a DVD+R on channel 1. If the DVD > is removed, the phantom ad3 doesn't show up, either. > > ... so that issue with ATAng is unresolved. Uhm, I'm working on finding the real problem, and I'd like that to be the solution. However the above may be a good workaround for those bitten by this... -Søren
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