From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: s ponnusa Subject: Re: Linux kernel - Libata bad block error handling to user mode program Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:50:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20100303224245.ae8d1f7a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87f94c371003040617t4a4fcd0dt1c9fc0f50e6002c4@mail.gmail.com> <4B8FC6AC.4060801@teksavvy.com> <4B8FF2C3.1060808@teksavvy.com> <87f94c371003041141y1bcd30fdkdca7349eea5930b4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:63141 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932149Ab0CDTuy (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:50:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87f94c371003041141y1bcd30fdkdca7349eea5930b4@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Freemyer Cc: Mark Lord , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , linux-mm@kvack.org Oops! ATA Specifications! It is a block device. HDD. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:20 PM, s ponnusa wrote: >> SMART data consists only the count of remapped sectors, seek failures, >> raw read error rate, uncorrectable sector counts, crc errors etc., and >> technically one should be aware of the error during write operation as >> well. >> >> As per the ATAPI specifications\ > > > ATAPI? > > What sort of device is this? > > Greg >