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

[Maciej Zenczykowski]

> To pay for itself it would have to cost multiple millions of dollars.  The
> #1 constraint in an IDE drive is cost per gigabyte, since 99.9% of
> purchasers don't look at anything else.  This means that we strip down
> things like our electronics and internal mask ROMs to their minimum required
> size.  Specialized code with extra features would inherently be larger,
> which gives two choices:

Would a single command to read a sector ignoring drive remaps really be 
that hard/expensive/large in size to implement?  I'd expect this would 
easily fit in the spare room at the end of the ROM - the function is 
pretty much (no doubt) already implemented - it just lacks an external 
interface.

I think this is all we really need - sure more would be nice, but this 
would suffice for those who say remaps without reading in the data 
correctly first are bad.

Cheers,
MaZe.

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