Messages in this thread | | | From | DevilKin <> | Subject | Re: What does AddrMarkNotFound mean? | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:16:14 +0100 |
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On Thursday 14 February 2002 00:11, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > >> Is this typical behavior for a hard drive which has developed bad > >> blocks? And if I blacklist the affected blocks in the filesystem, > >> should I also blacklist a few previous blocks in order to avoid > >> problems with the readahead feature of the IDE drivers? > > > > Its a disk error (it can't find the index marks for a sector). In > > general its a bad sign and you might want to check the smart data for > > the disk. > > > > If you bought an IBM disk within the last 18 months or so check for > > new firmware, flash it if so and reformat it before panicing and > > assuming the worst. > > Having done precisely that, and ended up owning an IBM hard drive that > has hit exactly this problem, like so many before this, this firmware > upgrade idea is rather appealing. It would be nice to be able to trust > the drive... > > ...but I can't seem to find the firmware anywhere on the IBM storage > site or, in fact, anywhere. Have you any hints as to where I might > look? >
It isn't on the site.
> It's a DTLA-307030, made in Hungary, if that makes it easier to help. :)
The firmware can be found here:
http://www.scan.co.uk/ibmhddtest.htm
I must say that personally I've had this IBM DTLA drive for over 1.5 years now, and I haven't seen any problems with it whatsoever. A friend of mine had the same problems (bad sectors), he reformatted the drive with the IBM drive tool and got rid of all bad sectors.
> > Thanks, > Daniel
Good luck revamping your drive!
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