On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 04:53:49PM +1000, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: > > A drive will absolutely not re-allocate a sector until it is written to. > Then it will first try and re-write the sector in case the error is due to > something like a power loss or other transient. Failing a good write it'll > then reallocate and write the data to another (transparent) location.
Let me wonder how the drive knows a sector is bad when it writes to it. Does it read it back as a check? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
