On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > If you have one bad sector you should write the other 7..
> > Are you kidding that this does not happen?
>
> Not when I got a bad block it didnt. Its a corner case so relatively low
> priority. At the point it bites you have problems anyway
Yes, but that is a "multi-mode" RW.
I need to think how to do a complete recovery.
A preferred solution in my mind would all for resetting the request cue
and retry in the next sector and continue on; however, the need to update
the badblock table that is written/created or needs to be similar to the
"badblocks" call from "mke2fs". Do you agree?
> About 6 weeks ago
I think that I have tapped that one out, but check me!
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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