Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

   Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:16:53 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   Basically you can de-stroke a drive with what you let the OS/FS report.
   Once this is done there is no way any FS can get to the stuff beyond what
   it knows about.

I'm not sure what you mean by "de-stroke" here.

   100 sectors total drive size.

   OS/FS knows about 90 sectors and can only do up to 90.

   Bypass Layer with direct access will see the stuff from 91-100.

OK, fine, with your special hacks it's possible to use some extra
sectors.  But is it actually safe to use sectors 91-100?  These wouldn't
happen to be the blocks used for doing bad block sparing, would they?

                                                - Ted
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