On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:22:03PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:05:19AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >Seagate gets it wrong. 268435455 is 0xfffffff, a valid sector number
> >for LBA but which is not handled properly by seagate firmwares.
> >The workaround is to use LBA48 for this sector number.
> 
> humm, well I seem to recall dd testing /dev/zero to an entire
> 500Gb drive without error, sometime this weekend -- on 3.0
> GENERIC, should I confirm?

Was it a seagate drive ?

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