'black list' in drivers/block/ide_modes.h is broken

Michal Jankowski (michalj@fuw.edu.pl)
29 Apr 1997 21:37:26 +0200

Due to the way a disk name is compared to the 'black list', some
perfectly good new hard drives are mistakenly recognized as old,
broken, blacklisted ones.

For example, "WDC 21200H" will match a (blacklisted) "WDC 2120",
because only as many characters as are present in a blacklisted name
are checked.

The offending line of code is:

if (strncmp(p->name, model, strlen(p->name)) == 0)

No, I don't know what the proper fix might be 8-)

MJ