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On Sad, 2003-04-19 at 19:41, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > 2) I don't think all drives are set to remap sectors by default. I don't know any that do not remap on write if needed. > 3) I don't believe that all drivers recover neatly from a drive error. For IDE we have some issues with ATA6 drives in certain cases at least. > 2) A disc exerciser - something that I can use to see if this drive, > connected to this controller, on this motherboard on this kernel > actually works and keeps its data safe before I put it into live > service. SMART supports some of this. Andre also has some disk stress testing tools - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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