Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
Okay, maybe not always, but after harddrives switched to GMR (thanks Jülich and IBM), they definitely did the bad block remapping themselves. Maybe early 90s, I'm not sure. SMART dates back to that time too. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org