Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?)

[Krzysztof Halasa]

John Bradford <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Although, to be honest, except where performance is critical, remap on
> read is pointless.  It saves you from having to identify the bad block
> again when you write to it.  Generally, guaranteed remap on write is
> what I want.

Then I think we have an agreement.

> I did suggest that data which was recovered automatically by the drive
> on a second or subsequent read should result in a remapping of that
> block.

AFAIK this is what the drives do.

> My most important point is that writes should never fail on a good
> drive.

That's certainly what the drives do. Unless they are out of spare
sectors, of course.

Doing cat /dev/zero > /dev/hd* fixes all bad sectors on modern drive.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH
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