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) -- 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
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