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ide-cd: document capacity hack
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Just copy the comment from drivers/scsi/sr.c::sr_done()
(from which the capacity hack has been originated).

Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz committed Feb 25, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -194,6 +194,14 @@ static void cdrom_analyze_sense_data(ide_drive_t *drive,
bio_sectors = max(bio_sectors(failed_command->bio), 4U);
sector &= ~(bio_sectors - 1);

/*
* The SCSI specification allows for the value
* returned by READ CAPACITY to be up to 75 2K
* sectors past the last readable block.
* Therefore, if we hit a medium error within the
* last 75 2K sectors, we decrease the saved size
* value.
*/
if (sector < get_capacity(info->disk) &&
drive->probed_capacity - sector < 4 * 75)
set_capacity(info->disk, sector);
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