Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: BLKBSZSET still not working on 2.4.18 ? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 10 Jan 2003 18:14:51 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 17:08, John Bradford wrote: > Didn't some really obscure IBM drives use it for something internally, > and shortly after everybody else had to stop using it incase they > overwrote the custom data at the end of an IBM disk, or am I thinking > of something else?
Something else - EFI uses the last sector for partitioning as one example. Drives do have protected private areas but they are shielded from normal use for obvious reasons - 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/
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