Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030565AbXBAEWR (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:22:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030540AbXBAEWR (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:22:17 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:63779 "EHLO pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030565AbXBAEWQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:22:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:20:53 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] filesystem: Disk Errors at boot-time caused by probe of partitions In-reply-to: To: TJ , linux-kernel Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi Message-id: <45C16AA5.7050808@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 24 TJ wrote: > From: TJ > > 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 :-) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/