28 Jan
2005
28 Jan
'05
03:45
The Thursday 2005-01-27 at 14:30 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Another thing that can cause slowness is bad blocks. Normally when a drive is formatted at the factory, the bad blocks are hidden from software. But, if there are some exposed bad blocks in your partition, your system could be slowed down by retries, etc.
That's what I was thinking of. Simply writing to the bad sector will cause the HD firmware to remap it out of view. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson