From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265333AbUBPDh4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:37:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265334AbUBPDhz (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:37:55 -0500 Received: from topaz.cx ([66.220.6.227]:49344 "EHLO mail.topaz.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265333AbUBPDhu (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:37:50 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:37:40 -0500 From: Chip Salzenberg To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc3 - IDE DMA errors on Thinkpad A30 Message-ID: <20040216033740.GE3789@perlsupport.com> References: <200402151658.57710.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040215163438.GC3789@perlsupport.com> <200402151808.42611.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040216005523.GD3789@perlsupport.com> <40302783.6020505@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40302783.6020505@pobox.com> X-Message-Flag: OUTLOOK ERROR: Message text violates P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.) -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - "I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K