From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935762AbWK1Jqb (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:46:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935767AbWK1Jqb (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:46:31 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.225]:48773 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935762AbWK1Jqa (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:46:30 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JmNwZMnK2u2f3mcsH1oOuVPi5UTUA1vljZmqhVhD1vwsgjL4bw9j+aZxsF/xMm6lYwiVFAIUOxneRwjMF+owH9S3TXk7VimOYwnOwT/OM2tg6Oc1eUM/mUN621bxYQ6Ov7v0NqgzXKkKsCpJcWKtFdG/qLQO+a+J4AVtYnWWFZc= Message-ID: <456C056D.2070008@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:46:21 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: avl@logic.at CC: Alan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Allow turning off hpa-checking. References: <20061122105735.GV6851@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061123170557.GY6851@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061127130953.GA2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061127133044.28b8b4ed@localhost.localdomain> <20061127160144.GB2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061127163328.3f1c12eb@localhost.localdomain> <20061127175647.GD2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061127181033.58e72d9a@localhost.localdomain> <20061127182943.GE2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061127195940.1b90a897@localhost.localdomain> <20061128092930.GF2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20061128092930.GF2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:59:40PM +0000, Alan wrote: >>> size remains still constant, and the exceeding damaged sectors are >>> auto-"hidden" by the drive by means of HPA. >>> Still incorrect? >> Still incorrect. HPA has nothing to do with damaged sectors. The damaged >> sectors are replaced from a pool of sectors that are reserved for this >> purpose. > > Please re-read my previous mail. I *explicitly* wrote that > I'm talking about drives, whose "reserved pool of extra/spare > sectors" was already exhausted. > > Considering that: still incorrect? Yeap, if the drive has run out of spare sectors, bad sectors will no longer get better after being written to. The drive will *never* *ever* get shorter. -- tejun