-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2010-01-24 at 15:12 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
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.
IDE (PATA) drives have always done remapping of bad blocks themselves. SMART is just the monitoring part of that.
I'm not sure of that. I only learnt of that feature after the turn of the century.
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.
Presumably, none of those were IDE/ATA drives?
No, the 32MB unit is pre-ATA, intelligence in the driver card. Step motor.
Just clarify - when I said pre-IDE, I meant disks with ST-506 or ESDI interfaces, where the actual disk controlling logic sat on a disk controller, as opposed to the ATA/IDE drives with integrated electronics (IDE).
Yes, but I'm not sure that the IDE HDs in the 90's had remapping capability. Maybe some had, but I don't remember the units I used or owned (80 MB, 500 MB, 8GB...) having it. It was handled by MsDos checkdisk. Maybe it had to be activated? :-? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktcfwIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WORgCfSRs6TDuLjtw0GYa5GypMvzLY /fgAnR1DeLbM7dz850Q/mRGhHzS2iUXy =X/0y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org