From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 17:52:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA25085 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:52:01 -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 RAA25068 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:51:59 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA06320; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 02:51:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA12383 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 02:51:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA01972 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 16:56:41 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507041456.QAA01972@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FBSD & old HDs To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 16:56:41 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507041015.PAA03710@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Jul 4, 95 03:15:54 pm 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: 537 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)