[ILUG] Re: Hard Drive Resurrection?

[Thomas Ribbrock]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 06:21:49PM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> SCSI drives (if they have not always been, they certainly have been for a
> long time) are "self healing". SCSI drives do not expose their internal
> layout to the outside world, presenting themselves instead as a big box of
> data blocks (as you can see from 'dev 08:21, sector 2496262').
[...]

Ah - thanks for the explanation, I only knew that behavious from (E)IDE
drives so far. What still strikes me as a bit odd, though: Why did it take
several mke2fs to make the badblocks go away?


> > I mean, I probably still won't use them for anything really important (at
> > least not until after at least a dozen more badblocks and other stress
> 
> Not sure that I'd ever use them for anything important :-)

Well, yeah, you're probably right. It's just such a shame to see 5.5GB SCSI
go down the drain... ...especially, when one's strapped for space... :-}

Cheerio,

Thomas
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