Hi,
Here is the diff for badsect(8) to recognize character device (IFCHR)
rather than block device (IFBLK), since there's no block device in current.
I don't know if there's any difference bewteen block and character
device. So, I surly don't know if this will screw up any disk. But, it
just works for me... hm.. I don't want to buy a new ata66 disk to replace
the old one, because my motherboard has only ata33 :-)
The old disk stores ports, src, obj, doc and some other data that could
be retrived back at any time. After makeing some large ports and the whole
doc/, I luckly see no more the HARD READ ERROR blk# ... messages. Though,
this doesn't mean this diff is right. May someone knows hard drive devices
well take a look at it ? Thanks.
Regards,
Clive
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--- badsect.c~ Tue Jun 27 22:30:57 2000
+++ badsect.c Tue Jun 27 22:17:30 2000
@@ -118,11 +118,12 @@
err(3, "%s", name);
name_dir_end = name + strlen(name);
while ((dp = readdir(dirp)) != NULL) {
+ if (dp->d_name[0]!='r') continue ; // look for /dev/r* only
strcpy(name_dir_end, dp->d_name);
if (lstat(name, &devstat) < 0)
err(4, "%s", name);
if (stbuf.st_dev == devstat.st_rdev &&
- (devstat.st_mode & IFMT) == IFBLK)
+ (devstat.st_mode & IFMT) == IFCHR)
break;
}
closedir(dirp);
@@ -135,8 +136,9 @@
* Opening of a mounted on device is not allowed.
* Attempt to open the raw device instead.
*/
- memcpy(name_dir_end + 1, name_dir_end, strlen(name_dir_end) + 1);
- *name_dir_end = 'r';
+ // un-needed.
+ // memcpy(name_dir_end + 1, name_dir_end, strlen(name_dir_end) + 1);
+ // *name_dir_end = 'r';
if ((fsi = open(name, O_RDONLY)) < 0)
err(6, "%s", name);
fs = &sblock;
