On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 09:12, Luca Berra wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 03:22:21AM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > >My major wonder is will badblocks be effective for looking for a medium > >error? > only if you can disable the disk onboard cache :) > a long time ago i changed badblocks write mode algo to write a pattern > to the full disk THEN check it, instead of write-block, check, next > block which was a victim of the cache. Pity i lost that patch :) What if I made the number of blocks written at any time * the block byte size greater than the onboard disk cache? That seems like it might circumvent the caching problem. -sv - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
