It seems Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2000-Jan-06 10:38:51 +1100, I wrote:
> ["dd if=/dev/rad0c of=/dev/null bs=64k" dies with an error]
>
> I did some poking around and found that there are two bugs which
> conspire together to cause this:
> 1) diskstrategy() does not detect dscheck() returning EOF,
On 2000-Jan-06 10:38:51 +1100, I wrote:
["dd if=/dev/rad0c of=/dev/null bs=64k" dies with an error]
I did some poking around and found that there are two bugs which
conspire together to cause this:
1) diskstrategy() does not detect dscheck() returning EOF, instead
passing a zero-length request
Yesterday I updated from a pre-signal-change -current to something closer
to the present (cvs-cur 5961 - about last Monday, to be precise).
Every night, I run "dd if=/dev/rwdXc of=/dev/null bs=64k" on both of
my disks (I trim the output and merge it with a number of other
systems). I forgot to u
