number of sectors reported through the BIOS. Cylinders * heads *
sectors may not necessarily be equal to the total number of sectors
reported through int13h function 48h.
An example of this is when a Mediasonic HD3-U2B PATA to USB enclosure
with a 80 GB disk is attached. Loader hangs at line 506 of
stand/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c while attempting to read sectors beyond
the end of the disk, sector 156906855. I discovered that the Mediasonic
enclosure was reporting the disk with 9767 cylinders, 255 heads, 63
sectors/track. That's 156906855 sectors. However camcontrol and
Windows 10 both report report the disk having 156301488 sectors, not
the calculated value. At line 280 biosdisk.c sets the sectors to the
higher of either bd->bd_sectors or the total calculated at line 276
(156906855) instead of the lower and correct value of 156301488 reported
by int 13h 48h.
This was tested on all three of my Mediasonic HD3-U2B PATA to USB
enclosures.
Instead of using the higher of bd_sectors (returned by int13h) or the
calculated value, this patch uses the lower and safer of the values.
Reviewed by: tsoome@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16577
ca237cc5e1