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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: "Daniel Taylor" <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:18:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vg0zbqe.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E0C3AE547FA504DA5E89EA5A24AC85803E2BD56@wdscexbe01.sc.wdc.com> (Daniel Taylor's message of "Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:24:25 -0800")

"Daniel Taylor" <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com> writes:

> It is only the intermediate variables in the module that are
> currently hard-coded to 32-bits, and which truncate the values.

BTW, it may not be only 32-bits truncate issue. IIRC, e.g. some
implement is checking the 0xaa mark at the end of sector. I forgot
almost though, IIRC, Windows writes 0xaa mark to the both of "end of
sector" and "end of 512" for compatibility.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-04  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-25  3:17 Daniel Taylor
2010-03-01 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-03 14:02   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-03 22:50     ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-03 23:05       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-03 23:24         ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-04  0:17           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-04  9:18           ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2010-03-04 15:29             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-07 10:59     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-07 23:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08  0:09         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-08  0:12           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08  9:36             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 15:48               ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/partitions/msdos: " OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 15:51                 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs/partition/msdos: Fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 23:16                   ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 11:57                     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-11 21:25                       ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 21:58                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-11 22:06                           ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 22:09                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-12 23:44                               ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-11 22:17                         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-11 22:27                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-11 22:40                             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 23:12                 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks Daniel Taylor

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