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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: diskcheckd goes nuts on /dev/cd0
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Mark Valentine wrote:

> > From: ben@freebsd.org (Ben Smithurst)
> > I think excluding CDs and MDs should solve most of the problems that
> > have been reported, I'm not sure what the situation with zip/jaz type
> > things is though.  Are they included in kern.disks?  Anyone?
> 
>   kern.disks: md0 da2 da1 da0 cd1 cd0 ad0
> 
>   ad0: 73308MB <IBM-DTLA-307075> [148945/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
>   da0: <IBM DMVS18V 0250> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
>   da1: <IBM DMVS18V 0250> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
>   cd1: <PLEXTOR CD-R   PX-W124TS 1.02> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device 
>   cd0: <PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS 1.12> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device 
>   da2: <iomega jaz 1GB H.72> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> 
> da2 should not be checked.  ad0 is okay, it's not a flash device...
> 
> It's still unsafe to clean ad* or da* in the default disckcheckd.conf.

kern.disks: afd0 ad4 ad0

afd0 is a zip.  I think afd can have actual floppies in it.

I think diskcheckd.conf should check no disks by default.  Checking is bad
for many types of disks.  It's bad for all disks on laptops running off
batteries.

Bruce


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