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Re: cvs boot-floppies, bad-block scan action inverted



On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
>         +------------------+ Scan for Bad Blocks? +-------------------+
>         |                                                             | 
>         | The system can scan the entire partition for un-readable    | 
>         | disk blocks and will mark any such bad blocks it finds so   | 
>         | that they will not be used. This requires that every block  | 
>         | be read, and thus could take a long time, but may save you  | 
>         | trouble later.  Modern disk controllers generally do not    | 
>         | need this, since they can identify and deal with bad blocks | 
>         | automatically, so the default is not to perform this check. | 
>         |                                                             | 
>         | Run a bad-block scan on '/dev/sdb3'?                        | 
>         |                                                             | 
>         |                     <Yes>       <No>                        | 
>         +-------------------------------------------------------------+ 
> 
> If I choose <No>, it runs the scan.  If I choose <Yes>, it doesn't.

OK, fixed in CVS.  Thanks for the spotting.

Matt



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