Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:35:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:35:26 -0400 Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu ([129.63.8.2]:27142 "EHLO saturn.cs.uml.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:35:19 -0400 From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200104160635.f3G6Z6Q414864@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: Bug in EZ-Drive remapping code (ide.c) To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:35:06 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Jochen.Hoenicke@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andre@linux-ide.org In-Reply-To: from "Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl" at Mar 30, 2001 01:15:31 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andries.Brouwer writes: > What one wants is to remap access to sector 0 to sector 1, > and leave all other sectors alone. Thus, if someone asks > for sectors 0 1 2 3 4, she should get sectors 1 1 2 3 4. No, because then you can't write to the real first sector. Assuming translation is good, 1 0 2 3 4 is a better order. Then "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=999" will get rid of all this crap. Otherwise, killing it is difficult. > So yes, the problem is known, but I do not see a clean solution, > unless the solution is to rip out all this EZ drive nonsense. Linux should still be able to read the partition table. The translation can go. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/