From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 20 08:04:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 820E616A4E0 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:04:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81EC443D58 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:04:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 25224 invoked by uid 399); 20 Aug 2006 08:04:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Aug 2006 08:04:57 -0000 Message-ID: <44E817A6.30405@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:04:54 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060729) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor References: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk> <200608201227.34510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200608201227.34510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:04:59 -0000 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." :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection