From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: disk failure and badblocks
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:12:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031122141218.GF12265@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1069489341.4351.5.camel@binkley>
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 03:22:21AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>My major wonder is will badblocks be effective for looking for a medium
>error?
only if you can disable the disk onboard cache :)
a long time ago i changed badblocks write mode algo to write a pattern
to the full disk THEN check it, instead of write-block, check, next
block which was a victim of the cache. Pity i lost that patch :)
L.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-22 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-22 8:22 disk failure and badblocks seth vidal
2003-11-22 14:12 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2003-11-22 14:57 ` seth vidal
2003-11-22 15:19 ` Luca Berra
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