/* * blank.c * Detection of Blank Disk (Formatted) * * Written By Aaron Geyer of StorageQuest, Inc. * * Copyright (c) 2003 Aaron Geyer * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person * obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation * files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without * restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, * modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies * of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS * BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN * ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE * SOFTWARE. * */ #include "global.h" /* The principle used to determine whether or not a disk is blank is to search the disk for a byte code that does not change over the disk. This module only scans the first 2MB of the disk. This module will need more work. */ #define BLOCK_SIZE (512) #define MAX_BLOCKS (2048*2) #define MIN_BLOCKS (64*2) void detect_blank(SECTION *section, int level) { unsigned char *buffer; int i, j; int block_size = BLOCK_SIZE; int max_blocks = MAX_BLOCKS; int blank_blocks = 0; unsigned char code; char s[256]; if (get_buffer(section, 0, 1, (void **)&buffer) < 1) return; code = buffer[0]; /* Limit to actual size of partition / disk */ if (section->size && section->size < max_blocks * block_size) { max_blocks = section->size / block_size; } /* Determine number of blank blocks */ for (i = 0; i < max_blocks; i++) { if (get_buffer(section, i * block_size, block_size, (void **)&buffer) < block_size) break; for (j = 0; j < block_size; j++) { if (buffer[j] != code) break; } if (j < block_size) break; blank_blocks = i + 1; } if (blank_blocks >= max_blocks) { print_line(level, "Blank disk/medium"); } else if (blank_blocks > MIN_BLOCKS) { format_size(s, blank_blocks * block_size); print_line(level, "First %s are blank", s); } }