Re: Partitioning wierdness with 2048-byte sectors

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:43:29 +0000 (GMT)

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> I was just trying out 2.4.15-pre4 and noticed that I am
> completely unable to create partitions on my magneto optical
> drives (2048 byte hardware sectors). Using fdisk to (try to)
> create a single partition uttery fails. dmesg shows:
> ll_rw_block: device 08:10: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
> sd.c:Bad block number requested I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0

Looks like either Andrea's block device in page cache or the updated
partition code broke stuff.
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