Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:48:03 -0500 | From | Phillip Susi <> | Subject | Re: New filesystem for Linux |
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Brad Campbell wrote: > I've never seen this behaviour in a drive. All the drives I've seen mark > bad sectors as "pending reallocation", they they return read errors on > that sector unless they manage to jag a good read, in which case they > then reallocate the sector. Or else they wait for you to write to the > sector triggering a reallocation. >
This is exactly what they are required to do by the relevant standards. The drive can not silently discard data and reallocate the sector. It either has to get a successful read of the old data, then reallocate, or wait for the host to write new data, and store that in the new location.
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