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.
What about a sysfs option or sysctl? -- Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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