Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 10:50:03 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD & old HDs Message-ID: <199507050550.KAA11568@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199507041456.QAA01972@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 4, 95 04:56:41 pm
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> > 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. IMHO the disk controller should check for such things and report about such errors. At least the diskette controller does in this way. Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia
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