From: markk@clara.co.uk
To: "Paul Bolle" <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 37682] New: Kernel mis-detects size/position of partition created with Seagate DiscWizard (OnTrack Disk Manager)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:51:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6813b0914dd61da40fc2db868ea5b11.squirrel@ssl-webmail-vh.clara.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308359856.2166.23.camel@t41.thuisdomein>
Hi,
Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 03:01 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
>> nor could I find the commit(s) that removed it.
>
> That was 232595eaff951e96cabe5e85fed35f66b72ff51e ("ide: remove
> obsoleted "hdx=" kernel parameters"), which was applied in the v2.6.27
> cycle.
Was the feature which that commit removed specific to ide devices? That
is, would it have not applied for a drive connected via a USB/Firewire
bridge?
Ideally the kernel partition-scanning code would be fixed to handle these
strange partitions. As a temporary measure, it might be best to print a
warning and not create the incorrect block device.
E.g. user might think "I'll back up this partition"
dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=partition.bin
or "I'll wipe this partition before disposing of the disk"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1.
Neither has the desired effect.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-18 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-37682-10286@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2011-06-17 21:31 ` [Bugme-new] " Andrew Morton
2011-06-18 1:01 ` Paul Bolle
2011-06-18 1:16 ` Paul Bolle
2011-06-18 8:51 ` markk [this message]
2011-06-18 10:38 ` Paul Bolle
2011-06-18 14:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
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