Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:19:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net (David Kelly) Cc: ken@kdm.org, clash@tasam.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Defect Lists + camcontrol commands Message-ID: <199908191019.MAA60432@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199908190317.WAA76137@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Aug 18, 1999 10:17:12 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As David Kelly wrote ... > "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: > > > Is this a normal number of defects? > > ... > Then again there is always an exception. We had a 1G Conner HD that > insisted it had no factory bad blocks. I don't believe it partly because > when put to the test it grew 7. And partly because it was a crappy > drive. There is nothing that stops a manufacturer from remapping bad blocks 'below the surface' and presenting the drive as having no factory bad blocks. Maybe that is what happened to your Conner. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199908191019.MAA60432>