From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262078AbTJSIRT (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:17:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262081AbTJSIRT (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:17:19 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:57766 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262078AbTJSIRS (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:17:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3F92488C.6030808@namesys.com> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:17:16 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mudama, Eric" CC: "'Norman Diamond '" , "'Wes Janzen '" , "'Rogier Wolff '" , "'John Bradford '" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org '" , "'nikita@namesys.com '" , "'Pavel Machek '" , "'Justin Cormack '" , "'Russell King '" , "'Vitaly Fertman '" , "'Krzysztof Halasa '" Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results are in References: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB300@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> In-Reply-To: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB300@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric, is it true what we tell users, that if a drive can't remap a bad block it has probably used up all its spares, and that in turn means that it is wise to buy a new one because the chance of experiencing additional data corruption on a drive that has used up all its spares is much higher than the average drive? What are the common sources of data corruption, is one of them that the drive head starts bumping the media more and more often because a bearing (or something) has started to show signs of wear? -- Hans