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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: disk failure and badblocks
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:12:18 +0100
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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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