how did the lba48 bug affect the translation of linear byte offsets
exactly?
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cinap
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On Sat Mar 19 10:22:11 EDT 2011, smi...@zenzebra.mv.com wrote:
> In the interest of full disclosure, that "dd" was done under Linux. It
> was a "dd if=" rather than a "dd -if". However, I just re-ran the dd
> from the Plan 9 installer, using the Plan 9 dd to read the entire
> partition and zero the entire partition. Neither the read nor write
> returned any errors. This is with NO lba48always in cat /dev/sdC0/ctl.
> Has anyone looked at the "prep" layout in the install transcript I
> bastebin'd? Does it look sane?
at first glance, it does. if the lba48 problem is it, then it won't kick
in until sector 268435454 + 1. you didn't send the contents of /dev/sdC0/ctl,
so it's hard to know where plan 9 partitions ended up.
- erik
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