As Julian Stacey wrote: > Would be nice, Joerg W. (cc'd) looked in that direction somewhat > I recall, I can't remember how far he got, I do recall some patches > I didnt get to try, can't remember quite what for, Joerg, can > you recall ?
Use "fdread -r" for this (FreeBSD-current only). > Anyway, if anyone does offer such a read(), I'll add it to valid(). Well, it's not that simple. Have a look at how fdread implements it... Basically, there's no way how a Unix read(2) can both return (erroneous) data /and/ simultaneously notify the caller there has been an error. The hack is that you explicitly need to turn off driver error reporting once you know about your bad sector, then read the sector with error reporting turned off, and eventually turn it on again to continue. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
