From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Norman Diamond <n0diamond@yahoo.co.jp>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Overagressive failing of disk reads, both LIBATA and IDE
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:01:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C50154.7010504@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49C4FFFB.5000601@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
..
> I think it could be even more clever, using a binary search or something
> on the remaining chunks, so that it takes less time to skip over a huge
> stretch of sequential bad sectors (scratch on media). That would probably
> be best all around.
..
Heh.. pity that spinning media cannot do a "READ BACKWARDS" type of operation.
:)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-21 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-20 2:12 Overagressive failing of disk reads, both LIBATA and IDE Norman Diamond
2009-03-20 3:32 ` Mark Lord
2009-03-20 10:00 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-20 13:09 ` Mark Lord
2009-03-21 14:22 ` James Bottomley
2009-03-21 14:55 ` Mark Lord
2009-03-21 15:01 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-03-21 15:08 ` James Bottomley
2009-03-21 15:20 ` Mark Lord
2009-03-21 15:10 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-21 15:18 ` James Bottomley
2009-03-22 2:15 ` Norman Diamond
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