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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:32:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: patch for ATAng bug
Message-ID:  <200309080632.h886W4v0041506@spider.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <16219.38485.513216.274862@canoe.dclg.ca>

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It seems David Gilbert wrote:
> I submitted kern/56572 a few minutes ago.  It patches ata-disk.c to
> reject a disk that has zero blocks.
> 
> This is a good thing ... malicious or broken disks (compact flash,
> whatever) shouldn't crash machines.
> 
> But in this case, the detected ad3 doesn't exist.  The machine is a
> laptop with a drive on channel 0 and a DVD+R on channel 1.  If the DVD
> is removed, the phantom ad3 doesn't show up, either.
> 
> ... so that issue with ATAng is unresolved.

Uhm, I'm working on finding the real problem, and I'd like that to be
the solution. However the above may be a good workaround for those
bitten by this...

-Søren



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