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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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