> In 18 years of IDE/ATA development, > I have *never* seen a hard disk drive report a WRITE error. You don't try hard enough. Also a cache flush write error is more likely than a write reporting the error, because with caching enabled the disk only finds out when it comes to try and flush or you do. > Which makes sense, if you think about it -- it's rewriting the sector > with new ECC info, so it *should* succeed. The only case where it won't, > is if the sector has been marked as "bad" internally, and the drive is > too dumb to try anyways after it runs out of remap space. Or you have a drive with raid optimised firmware, a magneto-optical or other similar cases. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
