Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:59:40PM +0000, Alan wrote:
size remains still constant, and the exceeding damaged sectors are
auto-"hidden" by the drive by means of HPA.
Still incorrect?
Still incorrect. HPA has nothing to do with damaged sectors. The damaged
sectors are replaced from a pool of sectors that are reserved for this
purpose.
Please re-read my previous mail. I *explicitly* wrote that
I'm talking about drives, whose "reserved pool of extra/spare
sectors" was already exhausted.
Considering that: still incorrect?
Yeap, if the drive has run out of spare sectors, bad sectors will no
longer get better after being written to. The drive will *never* *ever*
get shorter.
--
tejun
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