Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:

> The adapter's firmware should be able to do automatic rewrite of
> bad blocks. This is important especially for IDE drives, for which a
> rewrite is required in order to remap the block (there's no automatic
> remapping on too much read retries, as it can be configured on
> SCSI disks). 

But it still does that if the disk is exported as a single unit used by
RAIDframe, doesn't it?

> Also, for raid-5 the battery-backed cache of the
> adapter helps a lot (if you didn't order the battery this won't
> help of course :)

Well, I don't have it. :-/

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