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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
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