Looks like a bug in the 7300 disk driver
    Karl Fox 
    karl at mstar.UUCP
       
    Wed Jan 11 01:38:27 AEST 1989
    
    
  
Come on, folks!  If you provide a 4-byte buffer to read, it is a BUG to
write 512 bytes to it!  Sure, the raw disk device has size limitations,
but it should never round up.  The driver should probably return EINVAL
if the size isn't a multiple of 512.
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Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies
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