On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, David Laight wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:55:25PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>>
>>> if someone plans to make one and wants me to test, let me know
>>> asap, since I'll be returning the drives shortly.
>>
>> Note that a range was tried, and that the failing bn was 268435455.
>> So, this looks like the same 0xfffffff problem as Seagate.
>>
>> Try bs=1b or bs=512 so that with any luck dd reads only 1 block rather
>> than 64k.  I don't understand why it isn't following the documented
>> default of 12 bytes; I wonder if it's "optimizing" the reads.
>
> Is it about time we either:
>
> 1) Beat up the disk manufacturers and get the disk firmwares fixed
> or
> 2) Automatically retry these transfers as LBA48 ones

 	2), 2), and 2) again. Or better, still, on a drive over that
 	size default to LBA48 for that sector.

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