On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Rick Jones wrote:

> I read the post about the 64kB limit which seemed to fix it for someone, so 
> I tried patching that in - it made no difference. 32kB made no difference 
> either, I then tried reducing it to 8kB (16 sectors) and it refused to work 
> sensibly at all, gave errors and collapsed trying to read just about 
> anything.
> 
> Left me a bit confused, and I abandoned that line of investigation!
> 
> I've tried writing a file with FFFF FFFF across the 512-byte boundary, and 
> it's quite happy with that. I haven't tried writing raw to the device, I 
> don't have a spare drive whose data I can trash at the moment. I would have 
> thought a file write should show the same symptom if it's going to be 
> susceptible though, as it's still writing the same data across a boundary.

It should, particularly if that sector boundary is not also a page or
cluster (4 KB) boundary.  Brad's is the only example I've heard of this 
data-dependent failure.

> Still confused ...

You're not the only one!

Alan Stern




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