On Mer, 2006-01-18 at 11:15 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> For example, one bad sector on a drive doesn't mean that
> the entire drive has failed. It just means that one 512-byte
> chunk of the drive has failed.
You don't actually know what failed, truth be told, probably a lot more
than 512 byte spec of disk nowdays.
> We could rewrite the failed area of the drive, allowing the
> onboard firmware to repair the fault internally, likely by
We should do so definitely but you probably want to rewrite the stripe
as a whole so that you fix up the other sectors in the physical sector
that went poof.
> Just need somebody motivated to actually fix it,
> rather than bitch about how impossible/stupid it would be.
Send patches ;)
PS: How is the delkin_cb driver - does it know how to do modes and stuff
yet ? Just wondering if I should pull a version for libata whacking
Alan
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