Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:11:33 +1000 | Subject | Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept? | From | Stewart Smith <> |
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On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 03:18 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > IDE disks automatically remap defective sectors, so you won't see any > of them unless the disk is already quite broken.
IIRC: A drive that has trouble reading a sector will remap it. If the sector is dead and it can't read it at all, you're screwed and you don't get your data. This is why you still see 'unreadable sector' error messages from your drive. ------------------------------ Stewart Smith stewartsmith@mac.com Ph: +61 4 3884 4332 ICQ: 6734154
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