On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Alan Stern wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
What does bother me is preventing people from using the last sector of a
disk when they already have valid data stored there. Assuming the updated
PL-3507 chips don't get used in a context where the last disk sector could
be written (for example, under a non-Linux OS) then leaving the
FIX_CAPACITY flag won't hurt anybody.
What about people who use the device over firewire AND USB? They format
it in firewire and put data there and then connect over USB and can't
get it...
As you said - I don't like the idea of robbing people of their data.
I dunno... What did the firewire driver do with the old PL-3507?
Ultimately we may want to remove the FIX_CAPACITY flag. Thanks to the
design geniuses at Prolific we're caught in a "damned if you do, damned if
you don't" situation.
Is it possible to do something in user space, based on a unique device
identifier? (i.e. so if a user/admin has one old device and one new
connected, they can FIX_CAPACITY on the old without doing so on the new)
Alan Stern
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