Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 19 Apr 2003 22:57:33 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2003-04-19 at 19:41, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > 2) I don't think all drives are set to remap sectors by default.
I don't know any that do not remap on write if needed.
> 3) I don't believe that all drivers recover neatly from a drive error.
For IDE we have some issues with ATA6 drives in certain cases at least.
> 2) A disc exerciser - something that I can use to see if this drive, > connected to this controller, on this motherboard on this kernel > actually works and keeps its data safe before I put it into live > service.
SMART supports some of this. Andre also has some disk stress testing tools
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