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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..
In-Reply-To: <199903020240.UAA02018@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Mar 1, 1999  8:40:37 pm"
To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly)
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It seems David Kelly wrote:
> S ren Schmidt writes:
> > There is NO support for bad144, if your disk is bad, ditch it, it has
> > already outgrown its internal spare sectors, and is dying.
> 
> Speaking of which, is there any portable way to monitor bad block lists 
> on ATA drives? And the S.M.A.R.T. stuff that some vendors advertise?

There is work underways to standardise a log function on ATA drives,
I'm not sure if any has it yet.
I plan to support some of what all this gives you.

-Søren


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