On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Then we'd better check that in bread() (getblk(), actually). Works for
> me - that's even better than grow_dev_page().
>
> Notice that 2.4.15-pre6 _does_ have at least two bugs of that kind - aic7xxx
> (both old and new drivers). They have an ioctl() that tries to guess the
> BIOS geometry. It blindly does bread() on 1Kb buffer, which leaves MO
> disks very unhappy. So check looks like a good idea...
Works for me.
Linus
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