An unrecoverable medium error is typically `corrected' when a write to the block occurs. RAID cards will use the redundancy to calculate the data and write it back to the offending drive for instance.
Otherwise, for none-redundant stores, bad media is as good as anything to remind one that the data is gone ;-> Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Henderson Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kit Gerrits; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk Errors >So there are two situations in which damaged blocks remain >accessible: > 1) unrecoverable medium errors > ... What's the rationale behind leaving a damaged block accessible in the case of an unrecoverable medium error? A possibility that someone might actually be able to recover the data? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
