Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Driver retries disk errors. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:45:15 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2004-08-30 at 17:39, Rogier Wolff wrote: > We encounter "bad" drives with quite a lot more regularity than other > people (look at the Email address). We're however, wondering why the > IDE code still retries a bad block 8 times? By the time the drive > reports "bad block" it has already tried it several times, including a > bunch of "recalibrates" etc etc. For comparison, the Scsi-disk driver > doesn't do any retrying.
It helps for some things like magneto-opticals. For generic hard drives its only relevant for older devices.
> (*) Note: Tested last month: The driver still works for MFM > drives. However, the initialization apparently is not enough > anymore. The drive did not work when the BIOS didn't think there was a > drive.
Please file a bug report if 2.6 also shows that problem.
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