At 7:12 PM -0400 3/20/2009, Charles Davis wrote: > > 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'.
The bad block replacement mechanism is in the controller. It is *always* active. Concepts such as "partitions" are "logical" things created as data on the drive, maintained WITHIN your computer - in the driver, file sytem, and OS *software*. The mechanism doesn't care about them, ever. - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
