From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: avl@logic.at
Cc: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Allow turning off hpa-checking.
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:46:21 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456C056D.2070008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061128092930.GF2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:59:40PM +0000, Alan wrote:
>>> size remains still constant, and the exceeding damaged sectors are
>>> auto-"hidden" by the drive by means of HPA.
>>> Still incorrect?
>> Still incorrect. HPA has nothing to do with damaged sectors. The damaged
>> sectors are replaced from a pool of sectors that are reserved for this
>> purpose.
>
> Please re-read my previous mail. I *explicitly* wrote that
> I'm talking about drives, whose "reserved pool of extra/spare
> sectors" was already exhausted.
>
> Considering that: still incorrect?
Yeap, if the drive has run out of spare sectors, bad sectors will no
longer get better after being written to. The drive will *never* *ever*
get shorter.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-28 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-20 14:51 possible bug in ide-disk.c (2.6.18.2 but also older) Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-20 15:25 ` Alan
2006-11-20 16:56 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-20 17:28 ` Alan
2006-11-20 17:57 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-20 18:12 ` Alan
2006-11-21 11:51 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-21 12:06 ` Alan
2006-11-22 10:57 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-23 17:05 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 13:09 ` hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 13:30 ` Alan
2006-11-27 16:01 ` Allow turning off hpa-checking Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 16:33 ` Alan
2006-11-27 17:56 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 18:10 ` Alan
2006-11-27 18:29 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 19:59 ` Alan
2006-11-28 9:29 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-28 9:46 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2006-11-28 12:09 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-28 12:24 ` Tejun Heo
2006-12-14 14:45 ` Andreas Leitgeb
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