From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Checking a USB drive's capacity
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:44:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081218224418.01fc26a4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0812181641540.2217-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
> spun up yet. Not to mention that it seems strange to read the last
> sector before reading the first!
The SCSI CD code deals with this by spotting the error is close to the
end and of particular types then interpreting it and adjusting the volume
size. This is done because the size value for a CD-R/RW is imprecise.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-18 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-18 22:14 Alan Stern
2008-12-18 22:44 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-12-19 4:33 ` Alan Stern
2008-12-21 14:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-23 4:51 ` Robert Hancock
2008-12-23 12:32 ` Oliver Neukum
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