Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: how to interpret ide error messages (2.4) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 02 Apr 2003 18:16:12 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2003-04-02 at 18:41, Kiniger, Karl (MED) wrote: > > On errors the next write to a bad sector will typically remap it > > transparently to another spare block on the disk. Read obviously cannot > > do the same. That would mean that if for example clearcase ignored the > > I/O error and wrote back what it thought it saw but did not that it may > > have recovered the sector with invalid data. Its also possible of course > > clearcase actually handles I/O errors properly (which is hard). > Since it is a raid1 I expected user space not being affected.
I didn't realise it was rai1. If it is raid1 you are right, the upper layer will supply the data from the other drive
> (The other drive did not show any error messages since installation, > they are Maxtors 6Y120L0 (120 GB) cooled quite well) So I thought that > ClearCase should not have seen any error return code.
Correct
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