Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:57:35 +0100 | Subject | Re: possible bug in ide-disk.c (2.6.18.2 but also older) | From | Andreas Leitgeb <> |
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:06:14PM +0000, Alan wrote: > > It would also do that, if I later accessed the last sector > > (e.g. dd if=/dev/hda ..., or by accessing a file that happens > > to be stored there per filesystem, if at all possible), > > not just during the initial GPT-check. > Only ever seen during the partition check
Last evening I got my hands back on that machine, checked the kernel-config, and saw that GPT was already *unselected*! Actually, the whole "Advanced partition..."-bundle was unchecked.
While I can't tell whether the disk has such a thing, (The kernel used at partitioning time might have had GPT enabled. the tool used was either fdisk or cfdisk, I don't remember exactly, but never use anything else. It's about 3 years since.)
Turning off GPT in the current kernel obviously *does not* solve the problem. :-(
Anything else I could do, short of patching ide-disk.c? - 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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