[Bug 1126419] New: Review Request: whdd - HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126419

Bug ID: 1126419
           Summary: Review Request: whdd - HDD diagnostic and data
                    recovery tool
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: Package Review
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

Spec URL: http://sg.cicku.me/whdd.spec
SRPM URL: http://sg.cicku.me/whdd-2.2-1.fc22.src.rpm
Description: WHDD is a HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool for Linux. It is
capable of testing a hard drive with reading and writing, providing intuitive 
visualization of the process. Visualization or these tests is very similar to 
MHDD.

Amongst others, there is a function for copying the device. The copying
procedure algorithms are optimized for least harm to already-defective source 
device.

WHDD may work with your hard drives on low level, sending ATA commands to
device, the benefits are:

* No system freeze while accessing damaged device (device is soft-reset on
timeout);
* Better timing precision.
Fedora Account System Username: cicku

[Bug 1126419] Review Request: whdd - HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool

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Christopher Meng  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Christopher Meng  ---
Ooops, upstream is faltering on the license, as he doesn't know which GPL
version is suitable...

[Bug 1126419] Review Request: whdd - HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool

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Christopher Meng  changed:

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[Bug 1126419] Review Request: whdd - HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool

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--- Comment #2 from Mikhail  ---
This links are broken:

Spec URL: http://sg.cicku.me/whdd.spec
SRPM URL: http://sg.cicku.me/whdd-2.2-1.fc22.src.rpm

[Bug 1126419] Review Request: whdd - HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool

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--- Comment #3 from Christopher Meng  ---
Spec URL: http://cicku.me/whdd.spec
SRPM URL: http://cicku.me/whdd-2.2-1.fc24.src.rpm

Meanwhile whdd crashes on Fedora 22 sometimes, digging...

[Bug 1126419] Review Request: whdd - HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool

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Vadim Raskhozhev  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Vadim Raskhozhev  ---
Created attachment 1088432
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1088432&action=edit
patch to fix "relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used" build
error

Now build (at least on on F23 inside mock chroot) fails with "relocation
R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object;
recompile with -fPIC". The patch attached fixes that.

[Bug 1126419] Review Request: whdd - HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool

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--- Comment #5 from Christopher Meng  ---
(In reply to Vadim Raskhozhev from comment #4)
> Created attachment 1088432 [details]
> patch to fix "relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used"
> build error
>
> Now build (at least on on F23 inside mock chroot) fails with "relocation
> R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC". The patch attached fixes that.

I know this, no need to send it here.

Months ago when I found this I then realized that even upstream didn't know if
it works properly on 64bit systems