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On 19 Apr 2003 23:04:36 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Sad, 2003-04-19 at 18:00, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > Ok, you mean active error-recovery on reading. My basic point is the > > writing case. A simple handling of write-errors from the drivers level and > > a retry to write on a different location could help a lot I guess. > > It would make no difference. The IDE drive firmware already knows about > such things. Hm, maybe this is only another field where "knowing" differs from "doing" (the right thing) sometimes. > > Just to give some numbers: from 25 disk I bought during last half year 16 > > have gone dead within the first month. This is ridiculous. Of course they > > are all returned and guarantee-replaced, but it gets on ones nerves to > > continously replace disks, the rate could be lowered if one could use them > > at least 4 months (or upto a deadline number of bad blocks mapped by the fs > > - still guarantee but fewer replacement cycles). > > I'd be changing vendors and also looking at my power/heat/vibration for > that level of problems. I'm sure google consider hard disks as a > consumable but not the rest of us 8) Maybe I have something in common with google, I am re-writing large parts (well over 50%) of the harddrives capacity on a daily basis (in the discussed setup). How many people really do that? Regards, Stephan - 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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