On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 12:55 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > It makes we wonder if the drive doesn't have whoops mode where it > reinstalls firmware and rescans the drive to get its own internal > mapping into a consistent state. I assume vendors try to design > this (if it even is a real things) in a way that most users won't > notice, but there may well be edge case usage patterns that the > vendor didn't anticipate.
Like a self-check and repair when idle, but Linux never leaves the drive idle? (Thinking back to the days of the "Linux destroys hard drives" story, where the drive would unload and reload every few seconds, all the time, unless you issued a hdparm command to turn off power saving mode.) -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:59:45 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
