On 04.11.2010 18:41, Dale Amon wrote: > I've had USB connected drives appear to be failing > but then work fine after powering down and reconnecting > them. > > I've also had a drive that did not have good enough > air flow and appeared to have failed... but after I > got another cooling fan in the enclosure it worked > fine and the 'bad' sectors even went away. And you dare use it as a backup drive?
'Self-healing' bad sector errors... but maybe I'm just paranoid. Do SATA drives do bad sector remapping, and do they do it well? Who knows... I've had a quite expensive Raid-5 controller fail and give me crap like: "Overwrote bad sector during rebuild port X...". Suffice to say that all the data was _thoroughly trashed_. And these things are supposed to be helpful against just that. But I had another backup ;-) Data spew. R. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
