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Creat a false uncorrectable error is only done in the very beginning of using the drive as RAID1 rebuild target drive (and only if necessary, i.e. only when the source drive has reported an unrecoverable data block). It might affect the statistical data the drive collected a little bit (only the drive guys can answer this). Auto-relocation should not be affected because this is not a normal write error. Raymond Liu -----Original Message----- From: Hale Landis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:02 AM To: T13 List Server Subject: [t13] RAID and R/W LONG This message is from the T13 list server. On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:18:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This message is from the T13 list server. >[...] you might implement >vendor specific commands to "address" that >(which will keep the R/W Long >still formally in "obsolete" state)? Raymond, I think I asked a few days ago, but could you explain in detail why/how you are using R/W LONG? Do you expect the command to actually be passed to a drive behind a RAID controller or is the command executed directly and only by the RAID controller? If the command is used to create a false uncorrectable error on a real drive, how do you then adjust for the possible effects on the drive's SMART data or the drives auto-relocation function? *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
