Re: [PATCH] off-by-1 error in ide-probe (2.4.x)

    On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
    >
    > The 256 is _not_ a bug in the driver, it's more likely a bug in your
    > drive. 256 is a perfectly legal transfer size. That said, maybe it is
    > a good idea to leave it at 255 just for safety on drives not handling
    > 0 sectors == 128kB transfer.

    Agreed. That would be a trivially easy bug in the firmware, limiting to
    255 sectors seems safer.

            Linus

Yes, possibly.
I checked old standards, and see that "0 means 256 as a sector count"
is already in ATA-1.

Is there any evidence that other people have been hit by this?
Unfortunately, the
 "status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }"
is reported frequently these days, and has many causes.
In old reports it is rare. (E.g. none in lk for 1997.)

Paul: is there only one disk that you can make fail this way?

Andries