On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:56:25PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
> As I see it, a solution could be: "If a block fails with a hard error,
> remove all other pending blocks for the same drive from the queue
> because they will fail, almost always". 

This might be true in the "no disk in drive" and "write protected"
cases.  It won't be so for the case of a genuine bad block on the
fd media.

I'd say your approach is good, if you can distinguish these cases.

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Dan.