On 2011/10/04 11:16, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote:
I'll also add my voice to the chorus about "new bad sectors ==
failing drive"; in my experience, new bad sectors invariably mean
'time to get a new drive'. The moment SMART starts telling you
things are going wrong, you should take action.
>> My main concern is if I do a low level reformat with all zeros, and then
>> at a later date reinitialize the drive, would it then lose it's updated
>> map and revert to the factory's map?
>
> No. re-initializing the drive happens at a higher level than re-mapping
> bad sectors.
For the better
On Oct 4, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Tina K. wrote:
> My main concern is if I do a low level reformat with all zeros, and then at a
> later date reinitialize the drive, would it then lose it's updated map and
> revert to the factory's map?
No. re-initializing the drive happens at a higher level than r
On 2011/10/04 09:34, John Martz so eloquently wrote:
My understanding is it works this way. If the drive attempts to read a
sector and the read fails, the sector is marked as "pending". It is
not remapped under the rational that the read may succeed in the
future. So if you see a non-zero value f
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Tina K. wrote:
> If you zero out a hard drive with Disk Utility to map out the bad blocks,
> are they notated in a permanent fashion or will a simple reformat lose the
> bad block "map."
As Peter said, current drives remap bad sectors automagically in their
firmwar
On 10/4/11 6:08 AM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
If you zero out a hard drive with Disk Utility to map out the bad
blocks, are they notated in a permanent fashion or will a simple
reformat lose the bad block "map."
In a modern drive, the defects map is created when the drive is
manufactured an
> If you zero out a hard drive with Disk Utility to map out the bad
> blocks, are they notated in a permanent fashion or will a simple
> reformat lose the bad block "map."
In a modern drive, the defects map is created when the drive is
manufactured and it is stored in a ROM within the drive.
The
If you zero out a hard drive with Disk Utility to map out the bad
blocks, are they notated in a permanent fashion or will a simple
reformat lose the bad block "map."
Tina
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