-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2010-01-24 at 10:01 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Whoa! Hold on.
The posibility of using fsck to mark badblocks is _NOT_ used on contemporary hard disks.
Yep. You have to go pretty far back for that to be a realistic option. Pre-IDE days, I would say.
Maybe not so far back. Only since SMART appeared, and did remapping in hardware. Remember that the msdos FAT checkdisk utility did this remapping, on the filesystem, by default, since day one: it was an absolute necessity for floppies, and even hard disks. The first hard disk I owned (32MB) came with a label listing bad blocks. However, ext3 or reiser fsck did not, till a few years back: this feature was added relatively recently. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktcS70ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XZKACbBvLiYQnekRk2PhSJKfcwZbGO 6WsAnR+MIO/tKrp5uNe24HOv150zSAq7 =vNq9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org