Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
Somehow this topic seems to have migrated from how to do disk to disk copy w/o using command line (and so many of us try to tell him the command line is by far the best for something this simple), to dealing with bad sector in a source disk... which fortunately for me, is a rare situation.
Linda, I do this procedure as part of my day job. (That's why I packaged ewfacquire, I use it routinely.) The "subject drives" which I read from are a random collection of customer drives. They can be a almost new drive in a new machine, all the way to a 10 year old drive in a computer sitting out in a shed that was almost forgotten about. Most are from desktop/laptop PCs a few years old and routinely in use. I don't keep stats, but I would guess between 5 and 10% of them have at least one bad sector. Having a significant number of bad sectors I agree is rare, but having one or two I would say is almost routine. In fact, I think the spec for new drives is no more than one bad sector in 10e10. 500gb drives have a billion sectors, so even with brand new drives having 1 in 10 have a bad sector would be in spec. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org