On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 03:18 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> IDE disks automatically remap defective sectors, so you won't see any
> of them unless the disk is already quite broken.
IIRC:
A drive that has trouble reading a sector will remap it. If the sector
is dead and it can't read it at all, you're screwed and you don't get
your data. This is why you still see 'unreadable sector' error messages
from your drive.
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