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To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, degger@fhm.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE:Re: ide drive dying?
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:40:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d2bf5139200692DTVMAIL9@smtp.cwctv.net> (raw)
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Is a drive you cant rely on worth having?
On 06 Sep 2002 21:31:25 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ide drive dying?
Date: 06 Sep 2002 21:31:25 +0100
Message-ID: <1031344285.9861.81.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 18:33, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Fre, 2002-09-06 um 17.38 schrieb Alan Cox:
>
> > Get the IBM disk tools, upgrade the firmware and see what the ibm tools
> > have to say. IBM drives have had some problems with spontaneous bad
> > blocks appearing that go away with new firmware and a run of the disk
> > tools.
>
> The "run of the disk tools" that does away with the badblocks is a
> lowlevel format; a tedious way to spent ones' time on a harddrive
> that will die anyway soon.
For the IBM's it depends what the problem is. Spontaneous bad blocks
appearing during power off appears to be fixed by the firmware update
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-06 20:40 Hell.Surfers [this message]
2002-09-06 21:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-06 21:45 ` jbradford
2002-09-07 1:02 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2002-09-07 12:03 ` Daniel Egger
2002-09-06 21:07 ` DevilKin
2002-09-07 23:51 Hell.Surfers
2002-09-08 0:17 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-08 3:03 Hell.Surfers
2002-09-08 4:25 ` Andre Hedrick
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