Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 16:56:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: FBSD & old HDs Message-ID: <199507041456.QAA01972@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199507041015.PAA03710@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Jul 4, 95 03:15:54 pm
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As Serge A. Babkin wrote: > > It looks like you said the same thing I said: "If DOS can use this disk then > FreeBSD can at least try to use this disk too". BTW as I know bad sectors > do not return absolutely no data, they return data with errors and a flag > that says about wrong checksum. Only for CRC (or ECC) errors. Other errors (like a missing address mark) cannot return any data. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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