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Diffstat (limited to 'perl-install/partition_table_raw.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | perl-install/partition_table_raw.pm | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/partition_table_raw.pm b/perl-install/partition_table_raw.pm index 733970a4e..5a5f27f1b 100644 --- a/perl-install/partition_table_raw.pm +++ b/perl-install/partition_table_raw.pm @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ sub zero_MBR_and_dirty { #- ugly stuff needed mainly for Western Digital IDE drives #- try writing what we've just read, yells if it fails #- testing on last sector of head #0 (unused in 99% cases) +#- +#- return false if the device can't be written to (especially for Smartmedia) sub test_for_bad_drives { my ($hd) = @_; @@ -136,7 +138,7 @@ sub test_for_bad_drives { my $sector = $hd->{geom}{sectors} - 1; - local *F; openit($hd, *F, 2) or die "error opening device $hd->{device} for writing"; + local *F; openit($hd, *F, 2) or return; my $seek = sub { c::lseek_sector(fileno(F), $sector, 0) or die "seeking to sector $sector failed"; @@ -152,6 +154,7 @@ sub test_for_bad_drives { _("Something bad is happening on your drive. A test to check the integrity of data has failed. It means writing anything on the disk will end up with random trash"); + 1; } 1; |