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The issue on auto reallocation may be that some implementations would auto
reallocate on the subsequent READ of the sector.  The drive has no way of
knowing that this is a "good" sector that you artificially forced an error
into.  In general the details of auto reallocation policy are all vendor
specific.

Jim


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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

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:18:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>[...] 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 ***

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