On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Dan wrote:
> > At 9:38 AM -0400 3/20/2009, insightinmind wrote: snip > SMART is a *monitoring* mechanism, to alert (someone) when things > start to go south. It has nothing to do with actual corrective > measures, such as bad block replacements -- which are handled by the > hardware controllers these days. > >> I always thought (Re)Formatting a drive, zeroing out data, did the >> bad sector mapping out, but only during the formatting process. > > That's re-initializing a drive. You cannot reformat modern drives. > > The process of zeroing it -- writing zeros to each sector on the > drive causes the hardware's bad block replacement mechanism to > trigger as needed. > What isn't being said here, is whether the 'bad block' mechanism is operational when zeroing at the partition level, or only when the complete hard disk is being 'zeroed'. Chuck D. > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
