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Ar Sul, 2006-11-05 am 15:27 +0400, ysgrifennodd Brad Campbell: > I've never seen this behaviour in a drive. All the drives I've seen mark bad sectors as "pending > reallocation", they they return read errors on that sector unless they manage to jag a good read, in > which case they then reallocate the sector. Or else they wait for you to write to the sector > triggering a reallocation. If a drive finds a sector has a high amount of error but readable it can certainly relocate it and I'd hope it does it atomically as a transaction. You wouldn't see it as unlike SCSI the ATA world doesn't have an "I got your sector and did a rewrite" return code - 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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