Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc3 - IDE DMA errors on Thinkpad A30

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

On Monday 16 of February 2004 05:08, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Jeff Garzik:
> > Other equally smart people argue that modern IDE disks reserve space for
> > remapping bad sectors.  If you run out of sectors that the drive is
> > willing to silently remap for you, you should toss the disk and buy a
> > new one.
>
> OK, I get the theory.  But AFAICT this drive hasn't remapped *any*
> sectors.  Yet.  (Which would not be impossible; it's a relatively
> new drive, a few months old at most.)  Quoting smartctl:
>
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED 
> WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050   
> Pre-fail  Always       -       0 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100  
> 100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 
> 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       3 198
> Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline     
> -       0
>
> This seems to suggest that there are three *candidate* sectors with
> reallocation pending, none of which have actually been remapped (yet).

Because you hit them during READ access, you may try to WRITE them.
[ Hmm.  It reminds me quite recent thread about remapping of bad sectors. ]

> If so, drive replacement would perhaps be premature.
>
> I suppose it's time to read up on the details of the SMART spec.