Ubuntu
udev package

  1. Bug #581925
  2. Comment #82

Comment 82 for bug 581925

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jonie (jonie) wrote :

Martin,

It looks like Arch is using hald simultaneously with udev. I tested the "flawed" build from Arch in Ubuntu on three different drives and see no issues. Although 17 sectors is very unusual, it mostly works. Couldn't be that a race condition with hald, that is deprecated in Ubuntu since Karmic. If I have time I'll try to install Arch and test.

see this thread:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103373

It seems unlikely to me though, because then the read command should bomb with SK=0xb (aborted command) and the program would bail out with -1 status.