> Beg to differ. Remember, drives have reserved storage to remap bad sectors > *before* you ever see a bad sector at the interface. So, by the time you > think you're seeing only 8 bad sectors, you've actually burned through > the reserved sectors--many more have failed than you realize. Completely wrong. You see a bad sector on some devices after a sudden power fail because the sector was partially written when the power failed. It's not bad in any permanent sense it's just got incomplete data on it so cannot be read back properly until rewritten. Similarly btw any case where a sector reports as "bad" on a read does not mean you've used up all the spare sectors or anything of the sort, it means you've got a sector which failed to read. Some drives also (quite validly) report the number of sectors that were failed during the production of the device, which completely throws most of the rather weak drive reporting stuff software. What really matters is whether the drive itself thinks on its smart test whether it is likely to be failing not some joke heuristic. Bad sectors *can* be a sign of problems - be they drive failure, mechanical mounting problems (eg vibration), poor cooling, poor power and so on but not in this case. The warnings also often look different - you see a continuing to rise number of bad sectors. Alan -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
