On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:29:28AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > So, would it be all right to send the appended patch to Marcelo? > > > > -- Pete > > I think so, although I'm not sure if 2.4 includes the corresponding > corrections in the other subdrivers. But note that the users who reported > the problem originally said that everything worked okay under 2.4. Maybe > that just means other parts of the 2.4 kernel weren't trying to read the > "last" (actually one-beyond-the-last) sector.
The 2.4 patch is probably a good thing.
The 'last sector read' comes from, I believe, the MD driver -- it's looking
for some sort of signature which could indicate the presence of a RAID
configuration. That's why it doesn't always show up on all systems.
Matt
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