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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: FBSD & old HDs
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In-Reply-To: <199507041456.QAA01972@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 4, 95 04:56:41 pm
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> > 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.

IMHO the disk controller should check for such things and report about such
errors. At least the diskette controller does in this way.


		Serge Babkin

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