On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

: > BTW, cd driver does not properly check request size when reading
: >      through the end of partition, dd if=/dev/rcd0a of=/dev/null bs=64k
: >      results in 
: > 
: > cd0(pciide0:1:1):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x28 00 00 04 d6 00 00 00 20 00
: >     SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
: >      ASC/ASCQ:  Logical Block Address Out of Range
: 
: For now, I don't think anything initialize the partition table;
: the 'a' partition acts as a raw partition.

That's not quite it; I believe the user was mentioning the fact that neither
EOF nor errno=EIO are returned on a read past end of raw unit as with tape
drives; instead, the above check condition is generated.

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