> not. It is my belief that formatting was inneffective at fixing the drive > because the cross writing probably hit some of the low level data, which the > drive cannot repair on a format. the ecc *is* the low-level data. without performing a controlled experiment that recreates the power-off scenario, there's no way to distinguish a block whose media is actually bad from one whose ecc fails because the ecc is bad. the firmware theory is supported by the fact that many deathstars performed perfectly well for many years. I have at least one that lasted for 4+ years, and was powered off only a few times, and all of those cleanly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
