> the new location. I believe this should be always true, so presumably > with all modern disk drives a write error should mean something very > serious has happend.
Not quite that simple. If you write a block aligned size the same size as the physical media block size maybe this is true. If you write a sector on a device with physical sector size larger than logical block size (as allowed by say ATA7) then it's less clear what happens. I don't know if the drive firmware implements multiple "tails" in this case. On a read error it is worth trying the other parts of the I/O. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
