Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19 | From | Joachim Breuer <> | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:58:53 +0100 |
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Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 06:05:36PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote: >> > > Funny you should mention that point ... The "flagged taskfile code" is a >> > > project to allow for NATIVE DFT support in Linux. Nice screw job you did >> > > to IBM. >> > >> > Ok so whats native DFT and where does he (and I for that matter) read about >> > it ? >> >> DFT = Drive Fault Tolerance > > Hmmm, I thought it was Drive Fitness test. TLAs ... > > [...] > > Hmm. I stopped believing in the usefulness of the IBM DFT after my IBM > drive started giving unrecoverable errors reading my swap partition and > the DFT said that everything was OK later when I ran it ...
Happened to me *more than once*. Every single time: Drive has what looks like "Surface Errors" to the OS, SMART thinks the drive is dandy, DFT thinks the drive is dandy and after using the DFT "erase" feature it would even work (on the whole surface) again. Question only remains for how long. My dealer usually gives me a replacement disk when I tell him "this one's bogus" even if it doesn't show any immediate errors in DFT and similar tests, but I'm sure not everyone's that lucky.
I don't usually bash manufacturers, but with recent (> 10GB) IBM ATA-33+ drives I've experienced this behaviour in well above 50% of all units I've seen. The MTBF on their SCA LVD ones doesn't make me squirm with delight either, but those a) don't lie about being broken and b) tend to be easier to replace.
So long, Joe
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