On 04/26/2011 06:49 PM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 20:54 -0500, Gabriel Ramirez wrote: >> so a disk with bad sectors can work normally, but if the disk runs out >> from spare sectors well at that moment the disk is bad > > Are "spare sectors" special areas of the drive, or merely any space that > you haven't saved data to? > when the hard disk makes the remap by itself, the new sector came from reserved sectors from the factory more info in second paragraph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_sector Gabriel -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
