On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:56:09AM +0100, Tim Walls wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> Apologies if this is a FAQ - I don't think I've seen it anywhere
> though (and my man pages are out of service for reasons explained
> below!)
> 
> 
> My desktop NetBSD machine (1.4 was -current a couple of months
> ago!) is completely knackered thanks to an IDE disk that has self
> destructed taking the /usr partition with it.
> I am currently trying to rescue as much of the 5GB of data as possible
> using cpio to get it from the old knackered disk to a new replacement
> disk.
> 
> My question is...  is there any way (without recompiling the kernel,
> which I am in no position to do at the moment) of reducing the number
> of retries the WD driver makes when it encounters a bad read?  It seems

No, sorry. The only way to change this is to change a #define in the sources.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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