Terry Lambert wrote: > Julian Stacey wrote: > > Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool: > > http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c & vali > d.1 > > > > `Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS ! > > (because read() on DOS3.2 returns the intact buffer even if the > > CRC fails, so I can then average each bit of each byte in each > > sector for all reads). `Valid' works at sector level, no knowledge > > of file systems, so it can rescue/ manipulate BSD FS sectors on > > floppy, tar images, DOS or Minix file systems etc. > > Sounds like the FreeBSD floppy driver needs to be modified to > return the full buffer, even if there is a CRC error.
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 ? Anyway, if anyone does offer such a read(), I'll add it to valid(). It'd be good PR to have FreeBSD able to rescue floppies, the word would go round inside companies, & occasional colleagues would happily be told for a few minutes just how nice BSD is, while they listened to the drive progressing rescuing their data, (& making more noise & screen output on dodgy sectors). > This implies a descriptor being passed, so that the CRC and > the data are seperate. > > You could probably just wadd an ioctl that expected the > descriptor to be at the front of a data buffer, so that > you passed the address of the descriptor + buffer, after > the ioctl(). > > This seems a useful feature... > > -- Terry > Julian J.Stacey Munich Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) Independent Consultant Reduce costs to secure jobs: Use free software: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/free/ Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
