Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)
> On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not
> > overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install
> > hamm atm, but I wonder if linux can mark bad blacks as 'used', so that it
> > doesn't write on them anymore. Or how do you cope with bad blocks?
> > (I also get irq timeouts and drive resets, and then the system hangs. Why?)
Just a little note:
I installed one of these new DMA33/EIDE drives in a system that had been
running for over 6 months. At the same time, I moved from 2.0.29 kernel to
2.0.33. The machine has not been up for more than two weeks since. I
started getting disk errors and IDE resets as soon as I installed that new
drive. Is that new Seagate that you mention one of the new large DMA33
capable drives and did the problems with the WD start around the time you
installed the Seagate? Also which kernel are you running?
>
George Bonser
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