On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > drive itself "goes around" the bad spots, using sector remapping. > > ONLY when you write to a bad sector, OR a SMART offline/online surface scan > test hits the bad sector, whichever happens first. Before that, many drives
Hmm, make it hits a sector that is going bad but can still be read after ECC correction. Come to think of it, Most drives will probably realocate the sector during regular reads if it requires retries and too much ECC correction. Good drives will give you bad sector errors no matter what if they cannot manage to recover the 100% correct information to remap the sector somewhere else. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
