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Subject: Re: Accessing bad hard drive causes panic
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"Dan Borello" <dborello@uiuc.edu> writes:
> The drive passes SMART selftests and returns healthy status, but has
> reported over 500 errors.

What kind of errors?  DMA timeouts are most likely the result of a
well-known bug in the ata driver.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no