> Reading this thread, I see that many have a misconception. Bad blocks
> will not be found when someone tries to write to a bad sector! As
Actually on IDE and modern SCSI disks they will be. The drive does it for
you without you knowing. It also schedules its own I/O, it lies about
geometry and it does transparent block remapping.
Alan
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