Re: Avoiding bad sectors?

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:22:06 +0930
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 
write to it. (I've seen this happen and someone else posted about it too)

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