From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 18:09:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA08719 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA08714 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA11713; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:08:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA05220; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:07:24 -0400 (EDT) To: Bakul Shah cc: dg@Root.COM, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, fenner@parc.xerox.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Is my disk going bad? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:34:33 EDT." <199610242134.RAA13123@chai.plexuscom.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:07:23 -0400 Message-ID: <5217.846205643@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bakul Shah wrote in message ID <199610242134.RAA13123@chai.plexuscom.com>: > Automatic remapping only makes sense on a write to a known bad block > or on a *soft read error* -- in the latter case the original data > _was_ recovered thanks to the ECC and on the chance this block is > going bad, the original data is moved to a good block (and the old > block number is mapped to the new block). Quantum 4Gb's here seem to not remap on soft reads, or gather bad sectors extremely fast. Reallocation was on on the drives too... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info