From: Johan Groth <jgroth@dsl.pipex.com>
To: Ross Biro <ross.biro@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dma problems with Promise IDE controller
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:23:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41754D7B.8090203@dsl.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8783be660410191013230a1b48@mail.gmail.com>
Ross Biro wrote:
[snip]
>
> The drive still has a bad sector. You are having trouble because the
> error recover in the Linux ide code is not the same as Windows and
> most drive vendors care about Windows, not the ATA-Spec. On top of
> that Linux switches out of DMA mode once it hits a bad sector, so the
> drive will be very slow from the on.
>
> The only way you are going to fix the problem is if your drive has
> some spare sectors still available, and you do a write with out a read
> to the bad sector.
Ok, I pretty sure it has spare sectors. How do I write to that sector
without a read and how do I find which sector is bad?
Sorry for all these questions but this is the first time I've had these
kind of problems ever. SCSI disks fix bad blocks by themselves so you
don't have to do anything.
Regards,
Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-19 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-18 19:43 Dma problems with Promise IDE controller Johan Groth
2004-10-18 20:22 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-18 21:20 ` Ross Biro
2004-10-19 16:17 ` Johan Groth
2004-10-19 17:13 ` Ross Biro
2004-10-19 17:23 ` Johan Groth [this message]
2004-10-19 17:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-19 17:44 ` Ross Biro
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