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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
