On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 12:55 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
It makes we wonder if the drive doesn't have whoops mode where
it
reinstalls firmware and rescans the drive to get its own internal
mapping into a consistent state. I assume vendors try to design
this (if it even is a real things) in a way that most users won't
notice, but there may well be edge case usage patterns that the
vendor didn't anticipate.
Like a self-check and repair when idle, but Linux never leaves the
drive idle? (Thinking back to the days of the "Linux destroys hard
drives" story, where the drive would unload and reload every few
seconds, all the time, unless you issued a hdparm command to turn off
power saving mode.)
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