From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: Norman Diamond <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>,
"Mudama, Eric" <eric_mudama@Maxtor.com>,
"'Hans Reiser '" <reiser@namesys.com>,
"'Wes Janzen '" <superchkn@sbcglobal.net>,
"'Rogier Wolff '" <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nikita@namesys.com,
"'Pavel Machek '" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
"'Justin Cormack '" <justin@street-vision.com>,
"'Russell King '" <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"'Vitaly Fertman '" <vitaly@namesys.com>,
"'Krzysztof Halasa '" <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results get worse
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:41:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031026094103.GC293@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310261039.h9QAdniV000310@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
Hi!
> > 4. When writing ZEROES to the bad sector, the drive reports SUCCESS.
> > But it lies. Subsequent attempts to read still fail. Subsequent writing of
> > zeroes appears to succeed again. Subsequent attempts to read still fail.
>
> > I still have to say, we can't fix Toshiba, and we can avoid Toshiba, but
> > meanwhile we can fix Linux.
>
> How do you suggest we 'fix' 4, above, other than to flush the cache
> and verify each time a full sector of zeros is written to the disk?
Well,
if (drive_is_toshiba())
panic("Forward harddrive to nearest trashcan.\n");
during bootup?
Reporting sucess when it is not, is, umm, bad.
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-26 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-26 7:37 Blockbusting news, results get worse Norman Diamond
2003-10-26 10:39 ` John Bradford
2003-10-26 9:41 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-10-26 11:38 ` Norman Diamond
2003-10-26 11:56 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-26 12:06 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-26 13:59 ` Krzysztof Halasa
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-26 18:33 Mudama, Eric
2003-10-26 22:03 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-10-27 9:34 ` Norman Diamond
2003-10-27 10:23 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-10-27 23:31 ` Jason Lunz
2003-10-28 20:56 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-26 22:12 Mudama, Eric
2003-10-27 13:07 Samium Gromoff
2003-10-27 17:43 Mudama, Eric
2003-10-27 18:48 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-27 19:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-27 20:03 ` John Bradford
2003-10-29 20:01 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-30 8:30 ` John Bradford
2003-10-28 1:21 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-28 12:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-10-27 18:06 Mudama, Eric
2003-10-27 19:18 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-10-29 20:11 Mudama, Eric
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