Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:39:49 GMT | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Blockbusting news, results get worse |
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> 4. When writing ZEROES to the bad sector, the drive reports SUCCESS. > But it lies. Subsequent attempts to read still fail. Subsequent writing of > zeroes appears to succeed again. Subsequent attempts to read still fail.
> I still have to say, we can't fix Toshiba, and we can avoid Toshiba, but > meanwhile we can fix Linux.
How do you suggest we 'fix' 4, above, other than to flush the cache and verify each time a full sector of zeros is written to the disk?
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