Tobias Walkowiak <tw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: An: Crypto ML <linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Betreff: Re: SATA errors [SOLVED] > Thanks for your answers and hints. After doing checks with a simple > badblocks(8) several errors have been shown. The smartmontools weren't > working on that drive. I get an error like > Default self test failed [unsupported scsi opcode] > > So, there have been no SW-related errors neither to the kernel (what > wonder, although I'm using a 2.6.18 ;) nor to loop-aes (sorry for having > even the least doubt ;) but simply some blocks near the end of the hard > drive are broken. Now I will try out the Seagate support for Maxtor > harddisks. Could you please post the manufacturer & serial number / model of your broken drive? Just to be on the safe side and not to buy that one. Tanks! Regards, Peter -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
