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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:46:21 +0900 From: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> To: avl@...ic.at CC: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Allow turning off hpa-checking. Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:59:40PM +0000, Alan wrote: >>> size remains still constant, and the exceeding damaged sectors are >>> auto-"hidden" by the drive by means of HPA. >>> Still incorrect? >> Still incorrect. HPA has nothing to do with damaged sectors. The damaged >> sectors are replaced from a pool of sectors that are reserved for this >> purpose. > > Please re-read my previous mail. I *explicitly* wrote that > I'm talking about drives, whose "reserved pool of extra/spare > sectors" was already exhausted. > > Considering that: still incorrect? Yeap, if the drive has run out of spare sectors, bad sectors will no longer get better after being written to. The drive will *never* *ever* get shorter. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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