Subject: Re: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
To: axboe@suse.de (Jens Axboe)
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:50:03 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), andre@linux-ide.org (Andre Hedrick),
        stodden@in.tum.de (Daniel Stodden), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20011227175105.E1730@suse.de> from "Jens Axboe" at Dec 27, 2001 05:51:05 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> I've written a block driver that handles (or wants to) bad block
> remapping too, which just made me even more sure that this is definitely
> a hw issue.

And what about when the hardware doesn't handle it ? We have fine
demonstrations that in some cases it does a lousy job, or just plain doesn't
cope. With the current price/reliability for IDE disks personally I'll use
raid1 but it should still be possible to do software remapping either block
level or in some cases fs level.
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