Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A plea for bad block handling in the file system. Message-ID: <2070@sugar.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 13:34:12 GMT References: <2009@sugar.UUCP> <7144@swan.ulowell.edu> <2026@sugar.UUCP> <2762@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 47 In article <2762@umd5.umd.edu>, louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: > >> And I'll point out again that it's none of the FS' business what the > >> physical device looks like. Let the driver present a perfect pack to > >> the file system. > >Since the drivers (demonstrably) don't do this, this is really not > >a very good argument. > You're wrong. Thanks for starting out with a nice solid slam. It really helps make people take your arguments seriously when the first thing you say is "You're wrong". > The device driver (or on-board microcode) for the A2090 > controller does this. Why add needless complexity to the file handler > when the device driver know how to do this better? Why have the exact same code sitting there in expensive EPROM on every disk controller instead of centralising it in one place. > And if you're > fortunate, the disk controller or the drive (e.g. SCSI drives) will do > the bad block management for you. I'm not fortunate, then. I don't have a scuzzy drive. I have two 3.5" microfloppies. Their driver is trackdisk.device. It doesn't do it for me. The file system doesn't do it for me. What am I supposed to do? Buy three times as many disks and keep lots of backups. That's what. > >> Let the driver present a perfect pack to > >> the file system. Then how about putting it into the goddamn floppy drivers. OK, let's try this another way. Commodore: practice what you preach and put bad block handling in trackdisk.device. It's gotta be somewhere... the current situation is just not acceptable. > I can't understand why everyone seems to have problems with floppy disks. > Between my A1000 that I had for 2.5 years (since day 0), and the A2000 > I've had since then, I've only had 2 or 3 disks ever crap out on me out of > literally hundreds. Maybe I just live right or something. You're just lucky, I guess. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These may be the official opinions of Hackercorp.