On Apr 15, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> ALL disks have bad blocks, even when you receive them. you honestly
>> think that these large disks made today (18+ GB is the smallest now)
>> that there are no defects on the surfaces?
>
> That is correct. It is just that the HD makers will mark the bad blocks
> so that the OS knows not to use them. You can also run the bad blocks
> command to try and find new bad blocks.
>
my point was that you cannot assume an linear correlation between block
number and physical location, since the bad blocks will be mapped all
over the place.
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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