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

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> BTW: Hard drives apparently use more sophisticated algorithms,
> involving measuring head signal level even when there is no problem
> reading the data, and eventually remapping a sector on read before the
> information is lost.
> 

Which means cat /dev/hda > /dev/null makes sense in
cron.weekly...
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				Pavel
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