From: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) Subject: Re: bug in 0.96a Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 05:38:40 GMT
oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) wrote:
>The faster HD disk patches in 0.96a have a bug. It mostly relates to the
>read-ahead (i think.) [...]
>cat /dev/hda2 > /dev/null where /dev/hda2 is 65535 blocks long, reports
>errors on reading blocks 65536 and 65537......
This would explain the errors I've been getting trying to mkfs my
1.44M floppies, and tarring to /dev/PS0. I always get an error for
blocks 1440 and 1441. Hope it's easy to fix -- I've got the source,
but am not very familiar with it yet. :)
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Brian Edmonds (MSc CompSci) edmonds@cs.ubc.ca