Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Andrew Brown <atatat%atatdot.net@localhost>]

>Module Name:   src
>Committed By:  darrenr
>Date:          Tue Apr 15 14:11:00 UTC 2003
>
>Modified Files:
>       src/sys/dev/ata: wd.c wdvar.h
>       src/sys/sys: disk.h dkio.h
>
>Log Message:
>Automatically build up a list of bad sectors from failed read operations and
>prempt read operations on matching regions with a failure rather than waiting
>for the device to return a failure.  The I/O operation must have already failed
>MAXRETRIES times before being added to the list - this can generally take up
>to 12 seconds.
>List is made accessible to userspace via DIOCBSLIST and DIOCBSFLUSH.

this is a fascinating idea.  i don't suppose you have a small program
that uses said ioctl commands to get and display the data?

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