[syslinux] can't get write_sectors to work...

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/20/2010 03:56 PM, Robert Jordan wrote:
> 
> Just in case anyone is searching for a solution to this problem in the
> archives:
> 
> I was attempting to write 512 sectors per call, but the limit is actually
> 127.  It seems that errno_disk should have been set to 9, but for some
> reason it was reporting success.  So, the full solution is to apply the
> patch and write no more than 127 sectors per call.
> 

Ah yes... the code in the core applies this cap automatically.

The reason you got "success" is that the BIOS probably truncated it to
an 8-bit number, resulting in 0.

	-hpa