Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:42:24 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) |
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Hi!
> BTW: Hard drives apparently use more sophisticated algorithms, > involving measuring head signal level even when there is no problem > reading the data, and eventually remapping a sector on read before the > information is lost. >
Which means cat /dev/hda > /dev/null makes sense in cron.weekly... -- Pavel Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...
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