Re: Overagressive failing of disk reads, both LIBATA and IDE

[Mark Lord]

Mark Lord wrote:
..
> I think it could be even more clever, using a binary search or something
> on the remaining chunks, so that it takes less time to skip over a huge
> stretch of sequential bad sectors (scratch on media).  That would probably
> be best all around.
..

Heh.. pity that spinning media cannot do a "READ BACKWARDS" type of operation.

:)
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