On Friday 09 November 2007 16:34, greg.freemyer@gmail.com wrote:

Sector remapping occurs only on sector write, so this is expetced behavior.

OK, but this seems to be a serious shortcoming in the operation of these drives and / or their SMART monitoring firmware. Basically, they declare as intrinsic or permanent errors that are, in fact, only incidental, temporary or, most importantly, _repairable_! Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org