From: barryn@pobox.com (Barry K. Nathan)
To: _deepfire@mail.ru
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Howl of soul...
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:06:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010826220645.6D89BB9F08@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15ajm7-00033e-00@f9.mail.ru> from "Samium Gromoff" at Aug 25, 2001 08:11:23 PM
> > there's nothing wrong with the chipset/controller; isn't this thread
> > about the well-known DTLA problem? if so, then what mode you use
> > is completely irrelevant, since the physical media is degrading.
>
> i feel like the media isn`t downgrading because
> the badblocks _arent_ physical: low-level drive
> reformat doesnt show anything.
A low-level format (using IBM DFT) is going to *silently* remap bad
parts of the disk. It's only going to complain once it's no longer
possible to remap the bad sectors. So, just because the low-level format
doesn't complain does not mean that there is no media degradation!
Also, many people seem to be correlating it to heat, and possibly to
flaws in IBM's implementation of glass platters in these drives. For
example, see
http://www.storagereview.com/welcome.pl?/http://www.storagereview.com/jive/sr/thread.jsp?forum=1&thread=16057
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-26 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-25 20:11 [OT] Howl of soul Samium Gromoff
2001-08-26 22:06 ` Barry K. Nathan [this message]
2001-09-07 16:12 ` Marco Colombo
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2001-09-26 3:01 Samium Gromoff
2001-08-29 20:30 ` Pavel Zaitsev
2001-08-26 12:13 Samium Gromoff
2001-08-25 12:41 Samium Gromoff
2001-08-24 16:40 Samium Gromoff
2001-08-24 18:33 ` Justin Guyett
2001-08-24 20:00 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-24 20:08 ` David Huen
2001-08-24 20:34 ` Paul Jakma
2001-08-25 1:26 ` Mike Castle
2001-08-26 11:41 ` Hans Reiser
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