Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758936AbZCUPB7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:01:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755376AbZCUPBs (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:01:48 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:44362 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753808AbZCUPBr (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:01:47 -0400 Message-ID: <49C50154.7010504@rtr.ca> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:01:40 -0400 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord Cc: James Bottomley , Norman Diamond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Overagressive failing of disk reads, both LIBATA and IDE References: <49C30E67.4060702@rtr.ca> <1237645333.4600.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <49C4FFFB.5000601@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <49C4FFFB.5000601@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 16 Mark Lord wrote: .. > I think it could be even more clever, using a binary search or something > on the remaining chunks, so that it takes less time to skip over a huge > stretch of sequential bad sectors (scratch on media). That would probably > be best all around. .. Heh.. pity that spinning media cannot do a "READ BACKWARDS" type of operation. :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/