Trouble burning DVD
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:59:35 -0500, General Schvantzkoph staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Hi -- I have a Seagate hda: ST380020A, ATA DISK drive. The drive pbuttes the SMART test, but will freeze after sometime. Dmesg says this: hda: DMA disabled hda: drivecmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error...
The signed32 limits all individual files on an ISO9660 fs to 2G. This can be a big problem for some applications, and it's one of the reasons why UDF was introduced. UDF stores file sizes in a 64-bit int, which should be enough for the next 20 years.
I think you're forgetting that a filesystem must store the exact size of a file in bytes somewhere. If you only store the number of N-byte sectors a file takes, any attempt to read() an N+1-byte file will return 2*N bytes, which is Wrong. I suppose you could store 2 numbers for each file, (number of sectors) and (number of bytes used in last sector), but that's kind of inelegant. And it makes stat() take more math than just storing the size in bytes.
Good to hear that growisofs worked for you in the other branch of this thread. I forgot to suggest it; stupid me.
Em Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:40:11 +0000, Andrew Schulman escreveu: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- smart tests ------------------------------------------------------------------------- sudo smartctl -l selftestdev...
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Disk freezes but pbuttes SMART test hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51
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