Subject: Re: Bus-Master DMA error: missing interrupt
To: None <tv@pobox.com>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: current-users
Date: 12/28/1998 15:13:21
> : > BTW, cd driver does not properly check request size when reading
> : >      through the end of partition, dd if=3D/dev/rcd0a of=3D/dev/nu=
ll bs=3D64k
> : >      results in
> [...]
> That's not quite it; I believe the user was mentioning the fact
> that neither EOF nor errno=3DEIO are returned on a read past end
> of raw unit as with tape drives; instead, the above check
> condition is generated.

That's the way I read it too.  I would just like to point out
that this happens with ordinary SCSI disks too, i.e. through the
'sd' driver.

- H=E5vard