Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/ata

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:11:50AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:51:34AM +1200, Dave Sainty wrote:
> > If they don't have a crash-on-0xfffffff drive, but it is over 128GB in
> > size and the controller can't do LBA48 then I guess they would only be
> > able to access 2^32-1 sectors instead of 2^32.  Is that really a
> > problem though?
> 
> It is if there is valuable data in the last sector.

I guess that unless the partition actually ends in that sector it is
unlikely to be useful to read sector 2^28-1 when sector 2^28 isn't
readable.

        David

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