On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:04:27PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > If it runs out of spare blocks, then you're in trouble. And there's no warning > that you're running low on spare blocks in any particular region unless you > use special utilities to query the drive. Also if the failure is caused by > environmental factors like vibrations or heat then you can be in trouble too.
Actually, drives have S.M.A.R.T for reporting these kind of issues. The idea being that a counter decrements every time a block is remapped. When it reaches a declared threshold the drive declares an error and if it's in warranty that's enough to convince the manufacturer to send you a new disk. Not that many people use this feature, but it is there. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good > men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke > "The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be > governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato
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