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Date:      Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:30:04 +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:  <199507050930.LAA05498@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199507050550.KAA11568@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Jul 5, 95 10:50:03 am

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As Serge A. Babkin wrote:
> 
> > 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.

The error is reported, but the question was if there were any
(partially) usable data to get.

-- 
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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