-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday October 13 2003 07:04, david stevenson wrote:
Have you ever seen a IDE drive shipped with a bad sector, and no they do not make them perfect, internally they all map out problems.
On Monday 13 October 2003 1:46 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.10.13 at 11:06, david stevenson wrote:
As far as I know all IDE (intergrated drive electronics) and later drives do on board mapping. You need to go back to ST225 (20meg) and similar models to need user mapping.
Mapping, yes, of course. Defect mapping, I don't think so, but I could be wrong.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
My understanding is that the fs maps out the bad sectors and then set these not to be written to. I have been having fits of late with the reiserfs. Apprently it keeps writing to bad sectors and then causes a failure on boot. I have to rebuild the tree and then it boots. Lately this has been happening about 1 in 4 boot attempts. Of course I am investigating other reasons, since I started having these problems after updating to kde 3.1.4. But as of yet I am unable to determine exactly what is happening. Yes, the IDE drive ships with bad sectors IIRC. And the drive is mapped regardless of the drive sector status. And, as a stated before, I believe it is the fs that determines if a sectors is acceptable and then whether or not it is writable safely. If it is found bad it is marked and no data is to be written to it. Though I could be wrong in this. Does Andre Hedrik lurk on the list [:)]? I know Hans Reiser frequents SuSE bugzilla.... Hans? Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/iupxiqnGhdjCOJsRAozBAJ0TZJlPmA5eYpwM7BGkzrmzk1AwkACbB7Qa n7K3FRwrzNbKiV1Mzvf0FlQ= =CNDt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----