Avoiding bad sectors?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 20 August 2006 17:34, Doug Barton wrote:
> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > The disk should remap the sector, if it refuses to write to the sector
> > because it's out of remappable sectors
>
> You forgot to add, "and then immediately go out and buy a new disk because
> that one is toast." :)

Heh, well not necessarily although I personally would be shopping..

If the disk gets a dud sector and can't read it it won't remap it until you 
write to it. (I've seen this happen and someone else posted about it too)

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/attachments/20060820/9cc304b8/attachment-0001.pgp