Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc3 - IDE DMA errors on Thinkpad A30

Chip Salzenberg
2004-02-16T03:37:56Z

According to Jeff Garzik:
> Really the best policy IMO is just to run 'e2fsck -c' every so often
> until you can get your data off this disk, and throw it in the garbage.
> That does the "remapping" at the filesystem level, which is IMO easier
> than bothering with low-level ATA commands.

Good advice, though I have to find the XFS equivalent.

Still: I wonder if the occasional bad sector is really that bad.
Shirley, at the unreal densities of today's drives, the development of
bad sectors is inevitable? (Especially in a laptop drive that's
bounced around in normal use.)
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