Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:04:28 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) |
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:11:42PM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote: > Russell King replied to me: > > > When a drive tries to read a block, if it detects errors, it retries up > > > to 255 times. If a retry succeeds then the block gets reallocated. IF > > > 255 RETRIES FAIL THEN THE BLOCK DOES NOT GET REALLOCATED. > > > > This is perfectly reasonable. If the drive can't recover your old data > > to reallocate it to a new block, then leaving the error present until you > > write new data to that bad block is the correct thing to do.
Why the F**K are you replying to me publically when I sent my reply in private?
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