Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2010-01-24 at 10:01 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Whoa! Hold on.
The posibility of using fsck to mark badblocks is _NOT_ used on contemporary hard disks.
Yep. You have to go pretty far back for that to be a realistic option. Pre-IDE days, I would say.
Maybe not so far back. Only since SMART appeared, and did remapping in hardware.
IDE (PATA) drives have always done remapping of bad blocks themselves. SMART is just the monitoring part of that.
Remember that the msdos FAT checkdisk utility did this remapping, on the filesystem, by default, since day one: it was an absolute necessity for floppies, and even hard disks. The first hard disk I owned (32MB) came with a label listing bad blocks.
Presumably, none of those were IDE/ATA drives?
Just clarify - when I said pre-IDE, I meant disks with ST-506 or ESDI interfaces, where the actual disk controlling logic sat on a disk controller, as opposed to the ATA/IDE drives with integrated electronics (IDE). /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org