Messages in this thread | | | From | "Kalra Ashish-B00888" <> | Subject | RE: Linux kernel - Libata bad block error handling to user mode program | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:11:01 +0530 |
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-----Original Message----- From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com> Sent: 04 March 2010 11:20 PM To: foo saa <foosaa@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>; Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; linux-ide@vger.kernel.org <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>; Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>; linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org> Subject: Re: Linux kernel - Libata bad block error handling to user mode program
On 03/04/10 10:33, foo saa wrote: .. > hdparm is good, but I don't want to use the internal ATA SECURE ERASE > because I can never get the amount of bad sectors the drive had. ..
Oh.. but isn't that information in the S.M.A.R.T. data ??
You'll not find the bad sectors by writing -- a true WRITE nearly never reports a media error. Instead, the drive simply remaps to a good sector on the fly and returns success.
Generally, only READs report media errors.
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