Tomas Lund wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Mark Lord wrote:
One thing to try, if you have 12000 seconds to spare, :) is to simply
try this:
cat /dev/zero > /dev/sdX
sync
hdparm -F /dev/sdX
And see if that completes without error. If it does, then the drive
may be fine.
Software bugs are always possible, but do seem unlikely in this case.
But then, so does a hardware failure seem unlikely on a new drive.
completed without errors, no sectors reallocated...
Can you put the driver under IO load test involving lots of writes and
flushes (mounting as ext3 w/ barrier=1 and doing lots of copying should
achieve it) and see whether the error is still reproducible?
--
tejun
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