Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:30:21 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) |
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> > 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...
Indeed. Some drives can also do a timed defect scan using S.M.A.R.T.
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