linux-kernel - Re: Overagressive failing of disk reads, both LIBATA and IDE

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Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:01:40 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Norman Diamond <n0diamond@...oo.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Overagressive failing of disk reads, both LIBATA and IDE

Mark Lord wrote:
..
> I think it could be even more clever, using a binary search or something
> on the remaining chunks, so that it takes less time to skip over a huge
> stretch of sequential bad sectors (scratch on media).  That would probably
> be best all around.
..

Heh.. pity that spinning media cannot do a "READ BACKWARDS" type of operation.

:)
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