<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Richard Hector <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@walnut.gen.nz">richard@walnut.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> PS: Aside from SMART and some vendor proprietary (possibly Microsoft<br>
> Windows only) tools I'm not aware of any other way to peak into what the<br>
> embedded firmware is doing for wear levelling. So you essentially get<br>
> no warning that it's no longer possible to erase some of the blocks on<br>
> the CF. (And depending on the firmware in the CF it may either silently<br>
> work around that for you, as modern hard spinning rust hard drives work<br>
> around bad blocks, or -- more likely on cheap CF -- randomly give you<br>
> corrupt blocks. Fun.)<br>
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</div>Ok. I was afraid of that :-(<br></blockquote><div><br>Check out dmidecode which queries the smbios and gives you some "okish" stats on the HDDs which is outside of SMART.<br><br>YMMV<br></div></div>