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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: getting a disk structure given a device name
From:       Julian Elischer <julian () freebsd ! org>
Date:       2015-07-31 5:56:57
Message-ID: 55BB0E29.3060408 () freebsd ! org
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On 7/30/15 11:22 PM, Pokala, Ravi wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:31:03 +0000
>> From: Raviprakash Darbha <rdarbha@juniper.net>
>> To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
>> Cc: Steve Kiernan <stevek@juniper.net>, Simon Gerraty
>> 	<sjg@juniper.net>
>> Subject: getting a disk structure given a device name
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>> Hello All
>>
>> I am trying to write a filter driver for the ata block on freebsd 6.2 to
>> simulate failed reads and writes.

6.2!!!??
I thought I was in trouble being stuck on 8.0!

> We originally did something like that at Panasas, but by hacking ata(4)
> and ad(4) directly. :-P Later on, we created a GEOM class to do error
> injection. Currently, I prefer using the WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE48 command, to
> tell the drive to actually return errors on subsequent reads. That has the
> benefit of being indistinguishable from an actual read failure - the drive
> spends the time to do error recovery, and sends the actual error code back.
>
> -Ravi
>
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