Per Jessen wrote:
Neil wrote:
I am missing one aspect of this discussion, one I learned about not to long ago: Large hdd's have a bigger chance at a bad block. The maximum accepted bad block rate is expressed in % of blocks, but as there are more blocks on a disk there is a bigger chance at a bad block.
I do not have in depth knowledge of this, but I read (in the same article, can't find it now) a rebuild operation cannot continue once it has encountered a bad block.
Is this true?
I think that might well be true - ATA/IDE drives, especially the larger ones, have long been doing their own bad block remapping, so if a drive actually reports a bad block back to the OS, it's probably quite serious.
Not probably, the disk is about to die. (^-^) If all internal sectors allocated for remapping are exhausted you can bet that drive failure is very close and you should exchange the drive as fast as possible. That is why SMART is monitoring those remapping parameters. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org