Hello Eliyahu, Eliyahu Saks wrote:
Sometimes when a disk head is failing, a read will be successful but the actual returned data is garbage - but consistent 'known' garbage. It would be helpful if the read buffer would be checked for matches to the known pattern and be marked as bad sectors.
This change is more complicated that it seems. For example, your example code would trigger the internal_error "can't change status of chunk spread over more than 1 block." if the first bad pattern is a prefix of the second.
Therefore I would like to see some feedback about how useful it is before spending the time required to implement it right.
Regards, Antonio.
