Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

[Thanasis]

on 11/30/2010 11:59 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following:
> On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:53:21 Thanasis wrote:
>> on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following:
>>> On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote:
>>>> on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
>>>>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlock
>>>>> s
>>>>>
>>>>> just because some of you might have missed it...
>>>>
>>>> Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers to some other drives:
>>>>
>>>> SAMSUNG HD322GJ (F4)
>>>> SAMSUNG HD103SJ (F3)
>>>> SAMSUNG HD153WI (F3 EcoGreen)
>>>> SAMSUNG HD642JJ (F1)
>>>> SAMSUNG SP2504C (P120)
>>>> WDC WD6400AAKS
>>>> WDC WD10EADS
>>>>
>>>> Are these also affected?
>>>
>>> Considering the line right above that list is:
>>> "* It could not be reproduced on the same AMD system and amdsata.sys
>>> driver with the following other disks: "
>>>
>>> with the "not" in bold, I would assume that those drives are not affected
>>> by this bug in the drives firmware.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joost Roeleveld
>>
>> Thanks. That's what I thought too, it's the other lines that followed,
>> that puzzled me. O:-)
>
> The following lines are seperate bullet-points, eg. seperate statements.
>
> I write similar documents sometimes and this is a quick-and-dirty way to list
> the results. That's probably why I could follow it easier.
>
> I do agree, it could have been a bit clearer if that list would have been
> indented to make it look more like part of the bullet-point where it appears
> to be part of. (If this makes sense? :) )
Yes. Absolutely.
>
> I have the WDC-drive
I have both of those WD....
> that is listed here and am quite happy that it is not
> affected
and I am too!
> as I do use smartmontools extensively.
me too.
> I'll have to check which Samsung drive I have to make sure I am not using one
> for production use.
>
> --
> Joost Roeleveld