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Date:      Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:46:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: diskcheckd goes nuts on /dev/cd0
Message-ID:  <200107041746.f64HkYk14178@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010704153625.A97328@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> "from Ben Smithurst at Jul 4, 2001 03:36:25 pm"

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Ben Smithurst said:
> Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> 
> > last message repeated 3 times
> > diskcheckd[213]: error reading 512 bytes from sector 0 on /dev/cd0
> 
> I was gonna commit a fix for this, but after reporting the problem DES
> never tested the patch I supplied. :-(
> 
> I'll commit it later hopefully; se@ did test it and it worked for him...

Ah, okay.  I checked GNATS and freebsd-current mailing list archive,
but I could not locate any relevant PR's or posts.

> 
> > As a side question, why is diskcheckd even looking at at /dev/cd0?
> 
> Because my only current system when I was writing diskcheckd didn't have
> a CD drive so I didn't think to tell it not to check them.  Sorry...
> 
> I'll commit a patch soon that allows you to specify drives to exclude,
> and the default config file will exclude cd*, acd*, and md*.
> 

Do you need to special case tape drives, floppies, zip, etc?  If so,
you might want to exclude all devices except those that start with
da and ad.

-- 
Steve
http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/

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