[ltp] Re: Hard drive going bad ...?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Richard Neill wrote:
> The real problem when trying to read (especially newer, SATA) drives 
> with failing blocks is this: the drive + kernel will keep re-trying for 
> almost an eternity to read any given dead sector. Thus it becomes 
> impossible to read the good bits!  dd might take a year to complete.

AFAIK, this is fixed in 2.6.18, with the new EH code.

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  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh