On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> > > The capacity is incorrect. Mishandling a compliant device is not really
> > > acceptable and for existing disks repartitioning is not an option.
> > 
> > Can you provide more details?  For each of the two devices, what are:
> > 
> >     The apparent capacity with FIX_CAPACITY set?
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders

It's the same value for both devices?

> >     The apparent capacity with FIX_CAPACITY not set (presumably 
> >     exactly 1 block higher)?
> 
> Yes.

Is the block size 512 bytes?

> >     The actual capacity?  
> 
> Identical with the value above.

This appears to contradict what you wrote earlier.  If both devices have 
the same actual capacity and the same reported capacity, then how can the 
FIX_CAPACITY flag cause an error on one device but not the other?

> >     The contents of the partition table?
> > 
> >     The exact errors encountered?
> 
> Not without going back to the reporter.
> Is it important?

Maybe.  I'm trying to figure out exactly what's going wrong and I still 
don't have a clear picture.

Alan Stern


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