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

[Mudama, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nuno Silva [mailto:nuno.silva@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> > 
> > Doing cat /dev/zero > /dev/hd* fixes all bad sectors on 
> modern drive.
> 
> Yeah! I'm doing this right now because the data in hda is 
> very important 
> and and don't do backups since August!! :-D

If current trends hold, in the next few years, hard drives are going to have
to pick up and rewrite their data continuously to avoid signal decay on the
media... a drive gets closer and closer to a DRAM cell than a stone tablet.
(And yes, I've heard all the jokes about bricks/stones/etc)
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