On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:40:57PM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> 
> My understanding is:
> With 1.6.2, a read error causes component failure. As the read is not 
> retried a successfully ECC corrected sector will not be spotted. If you 

No, for IDE drives, in both 1.6.2 and 2.0 (and current), a command is retried
5 times. But for IDE, a successfully ECC corrected sector will appears
as "no error" to the IDE controller, because the set of errors the IDE
interface allows to report is very limited.

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