[rescue] Old sci and ide drives
Mouse
mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Mon Mar 13 14:42:48 EDT 2023
> [...] on the drives as a stress test. Any that fail will be
> physically destroyed unless someone raises their hand for some
> reason.
Depending on the failure, it might be worth keeping a few for testing
error paths in the code.
For example, once, in the past, I discovered I had a drive that
reported itself as having 0 heads, 0 sectors/track, 0 cylinders; this
produced a boot-time divide-by-zero panic in a kernel I was then
working with. I speculate that nobody had tried such a drive before.
I don't know whether I still have that drive, but I hope so, because
it's useful to be able to test error paths like that.
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