Subject: Re: kern/9856: wd driver loses seriouslly in face of bad blocks
To: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@ics.muni.cz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/16/2000 15:25:31
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 04:49:09AM +0200, Zdenek Salvet wrote:
> > No. Modern IDE disks should auto-remap bad blocks, just like SCSI.
> > I guess the bad block table of your disk is full (this is where supporting
> > SMART would be usefull :)
> 
> Is there any SMART specification ? IBM SCSI disks return SMART info
> in vendor-specific data, for other vendors I could not find any detailed
> specification at all ...

I'm not sure. SMART is decribed in details in the ATA drafts; I don't know if
it's ATA specific of if it's derived of something more general.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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