Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:46:21 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Allow turning off hpa-checking. |
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Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:59:40PM +0000, Alan wrote: >>> size remains still constant, and the exceeding damaged sectors are >>> auto-"hidden" by the drive by means of HPA. >>> Still incorrect? >> Still incorrect. HPA has nothing to do with damaged sectors. The damaged >> sectors are replaced from a pool of sectors that are reserved for this >> purpose. > > Please re-read my previous mail. I *explicitly* wrote that > I'm talking about drives, whose "reserved pool of extra/spare > sectors" was already exhausted. > > Considering that: still incorrect?
Yeap, if the drive has run out of spare sectors, bad sectors will no longer get better after being written to. The drive will *never* *ever* get shorter.
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