Daniel Feenberg wrote:
The website gives no indication of what spinrite does. Does it just keep trying sector reads longer than usual? That (and marking those sectors as bad) was plenty usefull when it was sold to owners of broken IBM AT computers 25 years ago. That wouldn't seem to be very usefull nowadays. Can it reconstruct the partition table or do anything else relevant to an ntfs or ext3 filesystem on a SATA drive?
It is basically a sector-rereader and remapper that has a good rate of success. It does not do filesystem reconstruction at all.
It DOES work on SATA disks. I presume it works on SAS as well - any drive that can be seen by the BIOS I would guess would work.
I'm not saying it is necessarily the best for any particular job though. -Brian _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
