From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263050AbTJUInv (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:43:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263054AbTJUInv (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:43:51 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:57809 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263050AbTJUInt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:43:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:43:44 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results are in Message-ID: <20031021084341.GB20846@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1c6401c395e7$16630d00$3eee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="iHFviu+nrIzaPuhq" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1c6401c395e7$16630d00$3eee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --iHFviu+nrIzaPuhq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-10-19 11:16:42 +0900, Norman Diamond wrote in message <1c6401c395e7$16630d00$3eee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60>: > After a few other experiments, I used smartctl to direct the drive to do a > long self-test. When it completed, we observed that the drive had > self-diagnosed a read failure on the same bad sector number as always, and > we observed that the drive did not reallocate the bad block during long > self-tests. Maybe the drive can't remap the block because there's no free space in the remap area available any more... In this case, the real problem is that the drive doesn't tell in advance that is already remapped some blocks. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --iHFviu+nrIzaPuhq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lPG9Hb1edYOZ4bsRAq75AJ435SHnfpvQLeSdDiiEPwhCMxGDPACfY+oH KPm54JoGKqzaB7kKNVSZLOs= =lNmY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --iHFviu+nrIzaPuhq--