Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:53:19 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net> To: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large IDE disks Message-ID: <XFMail.971120175625.cdillon@tri-lakes.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120123115.6628B-100000@darkstar.home>
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On 20-Nov-97 Charles Mott wrote: >> 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. ALL IDE drives are capable of being re-low-level-formatted and having their bad sectors and spares remapped. Western Digital gives these utilities to the public (available on their FTP site), as does Maxtor, I think (at least I got ahold of them.. not sure if Maxtor wanted them released or not). I have NOT found these utilities for Quantum or Fujitsu drives. Conner drives actually require a small bit of hardware to do the reformatting (its rather inexpensive, luckily, and doesn't require any software.. it can be done outside of a box). --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best operating system on the planet. ---- (http://www.freebsd.org)
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