Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?)

[Russell King]

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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Russell King
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