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Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in disk/format
From: nigel@9fs.org
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Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 09:32:11 +0100
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> rsc writes:
>> For better or worse, the sd53c8xx driver
>> truncates very large writes (like an entire kernel!).  It returns
>> the correct short write count, but format wasn't checking
>> for short writes.
>
> umm, isn't this a bug in the driver?  the man page for write(2) says,
>

Yep, and I think "for better or worse" acknowledges that.

I fixed this over a year ago, but somehow it never made it to 3rd, and hence
not 4th, edition.

I've posted the fix to 9trouble, but anyone wanting to read/write more than
128K at a time to Symbios controlled disk can pick up the files as

http://www.9fs.org/dist/ncr/sd53c8xx.tgz