Jaye Mathisen wrote:
>
> Used ABBR on SCSI disks all the time, very nice.
>
> Remember reading on hackers somewhere that newer drives like IBM supported
> this feature. I'm getting a few bad blocks on a 75GB IBM drive (at least
> according to the ata driver), and rather than replacing it and moves on,
> the disk basically dies.
>
> However, I run the IBM drive fitness test, it works some magic in there
> writing data to the drive, and the drive is back, and the failed block now
> seems fine.
>
> So is there some equivalent of camcontrol or scsicmd for ATA drives that
> turns on this feature, and allows my running system to take advantage of
> it?
>
> Or do I just write nul's to the block or 0's, and it's supposed to do it
> automatically? or do I just punt.
Or a possible third option: A 75GB IBM HD is probablly still within the
warentee period. Assuming you don't play fetch with your dog and the
HD, you can probabally get it replaced.
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