From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 4 11:47:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from imr1.ericy.com (imr1.ericy.com [208.237.135.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD4137B407; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) Received: from mr5.exu.ericsson.se (mr5u3.ericy.com [208.237.135.124]) by imr1.ericy.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f64IlDp02964; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:47:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from noah.lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr5.exu.ericsson.se (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f64IlCT24720; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:47:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.175]) by noah.lmc.ericsson.se (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f64IlBG10103; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:47:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <32AT2VH0>; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:47:10 -0400 Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (lmcpc100455.pc.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.23.150]) by LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 32AX8YZ5; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:47:06 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" To: Ben Smithurst Cc: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" , "Steven G. Kargl" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <3B4364A6.8070609@lmc.ericsson.se> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 14:47:02 -0400 Organization: LMC, Ericsson Research Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: diskcheckd goes nuts on /dev/cd0 References: <200107041746.f64HkYk14178@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <3B4359FC.8050803@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010704191740.C97328@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: > > >>Actually, I think that it should exclude all devices except those >>specified in the config file... As in "check only requested disks"... > > It's perfectly possible to do just that... good to hear that. > phk wanted it to check all > disks by default when I was writing it though, but this seems to be > causing problems for people. :-( Well, not only for people but mostly for hardware. ;) > I think excluding CDs and MDs should solve most of the problems that > have been reported, I think someone already raised the point about memory chips that "look like" IDE disks. These chips have limited r/w lifespan, and should be spared from diskcheck... So that's another problem. > I'm not sure what the situation with zip/jaz type > things is though. Are they included in kern.disks? Anyone? No idea. I could take a look at home when I buy my next power supply. ;) A. -- Antoine Beaupré Jambala TCM team Ericsson Canada inc. mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message