Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:22:06 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton <nik@ngo.org.uk> Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? Message-ID: <200608201922.26864.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <44E817A6.30405@FreeBSD.org> References: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk> <200608201227.34510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <44E817A6.30405@FreeBSD.org>
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--nextPart1263121.z2aFNky2LZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 write to it. (I've seen this happen and someone else posted about it too) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1263121.z2aFNky2LZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE6DDa5ZPcIHs/zowRAlToAKCfeyRbwNie2zUVWU+AO9qrmGlydACeNXJG QdmR2lRKbPo/kc1UyIAAi2g= =9p9N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1263121.z2aFNky2LZ--
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