On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:42:08AM -0500, Piszcz, Justin Michael wrote: > Normally, this problem associated with drives over 32GB or 127GB on a > controller that cannot support it. It was not discussed here, I was > wondering if that is the problem, if it is not, what type of Hard Drive > is giving you these problems?
This does not depend on the type of the hard disk for sure. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm# dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1024 count=10001 10001+0 records in 10001+0 records out 10241024 bytes transferred in 0,062195 seconds (164659895 bytes/sec) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm# losetup /dev/loop0 foo loop: loaded (max 8 devices) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm# mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/loop0 ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm# blockdev --getbsz /dev/loop0 1024 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm# dd if=/dev/loop0 of=/dev/null 20002+0 records in 20002+0 records out 10241024 bytes transferred in 0,248255 seconds (41252031 bytes/sec) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm# mount -o ro /dev/loop0 /mnt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm# umount /dev/loop0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm# blockdev --getbsz /dev/loop0 4096 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm# dd if=/dev/loop0 of=/dev/null attempt to access beyond end of device 07:00: rw=0, want=10004, limit=10001 dd: reading `/dev/loop0': Input/output error 20000+0 records in 20000+0 records out 10240000 bytes transferred in 0,185949 seconds (55068833 bytes/sec) Of course you could reproduce it much more simple without all the ext2 stuff using blockdev --setbsz :) Mario -- () Ascii Ribbon Campaign /\ Support plain text e-mail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/