From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 5 17:22:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA13248 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 17:22:54 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA13239 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 17:22:51 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA24581; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 02:22:48 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA03219 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 02:22:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA05498 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:30:05 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507050930.LAA05498@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FBSD & old HDs To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:30:04 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199507050550.KAA11568@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Jul 5, 95 10:50:03 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 516 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)