On 10/29/2012 11:30 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
However, the firmware will do remapping of sectors _it_ determines are failing, and the probability is that if you are seeing errors consistently, it's because it can't remap.
A sector that is unreadable even after retries CANNOT be remapped until it is written, and any attempts to read it MUST return an I/O error until that remapping has occurred. If the drive were to go ahead and immediately remap that unreadable sector, what data would you suggest that it return when the sector is read? All-zeros with no indication of error is NOT acceptable. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org