From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 20 11:34:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA29442 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA29417 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:34:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (tc-if2-12.ida.net [208.141.171.69]) by anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA26403 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:34:05 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:33:32 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large IDE disks In-Reply-To: <199711201859.TAA01407@sos.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The drives should remap bad sectors by themselves, if that fails it has > no more spares, and are now "junk drives" (those some of the more > "ingenious" dealers try to sell anyways)... Use your 3 year warranty > to get it replaced ASAP. Are the bad sectors determined at the time of manufactruing or does the drive somehow automatically do this when it is reformatted? Mainly, I am wondering whether the drives can automatically deal with new bad sectors as they appear. Charles Mott