The need for initialising disks before use?

[Kirk Strauser]

On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote:

> A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before using
> them to allow the disks to map out any "bad spots" early on?

Note: if you once you actually start seeing bad sectors, the drive is almost 
dead.  A drive can remap a pretty large number internally, but once that 
pool is exhausted (and the number of errors is still growing 
exponentially), there's not a lot of life left.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
The Day Companies