Re: [OT] Howl of soul...

From: Samium Gromoff (_deepfire@mail.ru)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 22:01:38 EST


> A low-level format (using IBM DFT) is going to *silently* remap bad
> parts of the disk. It's only going to complain once it's no longer
> possible to remap the bad sectors. So, just because the low-level format
> doesn't complain does not mean that there is no media degradation!
    1. how to find problematic blocks?
           - just read, and if read fails goto 2.
             (i.e. we found no new bad sectors)
           - goto 2 on the sectors reported before as bad.
             (i.e. drive remembers sectors on which he had failures)
    2. what to do when i found problematic sector?
           - just see if it still usable.
         2a. i write to the sector, and after that i read crap.
               - sector is bad! should remap it!
         2b. i can write data to the sector, then reads goes ok.
               - hmm, i think that was kinda magnetetic storm, sector
 is still usable. do not remapping.

        in my case there was just magnetic storm, so the sector can be safely
     read/written again.

cheers,
Sam

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