Reading bad blocks hangs with 2.4.19-pre10

Måns Rullgård (mru@users.sourceforge.net)
15 Jun 2002 23:53:48 +0200


Reading a bad block on an IDE disk causes the system call to hang
instead of returning EIO. Example: running badblocks on a damaged
disk. 2.4.17 works correctly, 2.4.19-pre10 is broken, I don't know
about others. Is this a bug?

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Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net
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