-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-02 at 15:45 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
There is no need for that with FAT.
The disk drive oem utilities I've seen usually don't deal at the filesystem level.
But FAT does. Bad sectors can be marked on the FAT.
Also, many disks handle that transparently.
That's why I look for manufacturer-supplied utilities in these situations. They're designed for the specific hardware and firmware in question.
But you don't need to do anything if the disk has that capability. You simply write to a bad sector, and it gets automatically remapped to a new one, reserved on factory, till the factory list is full. It is OS transparent, implemented on the disk firmware. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF6I8ctTMYHG2NR9URAjwMAJ9T6nv+gcEPIz6MA361pYZP94eJUwCeNxhn T7vOwRWPiVWRsrVtmttHEZA= =njER -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org