On Sad, 2003-04-19 at 19:41, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> 2) I don't think all drives are set to remap sectors by default.
I don't know any that do not remap on write if needed.
> 3) I don't believe that all drivers recover neatly from a drive error.
For IDE we have some issues with ATA6 drives in certain cases at least.
> 2) A disc exerciser - something that I can use to see if this drive,
> connected to this controller, on this motherboard on this kernel
> actually works and keeps its data safe before I put it into live
> service.
SMART supports some of this. Andre also has some disk stress testing
tools
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