Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 10:03:49 +0600 (GMT+0600) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD & old HDs Message-ID: <199507070403.KAA01628@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199507050930.LAA05498@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 5, 95 11:30:04 am
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> > > 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. > > The error is reported, but the question was if there were any > (partially) usable data to get. No, the question was if there is any answer from controller or it just hangs and the only way to determine such error is timeout. FreeBSD got timeouts on XEBEC old IDE drive. Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia
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