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[ BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] 1) Me, I use the standard option of Ata ops x23/33 Read/WriteLong, except the committees have chosen to not define these ops past the capacity barrier of 128GiB @ 0.5KiB/block. In Scsi, the opcodes are are x3E/3F, except the committees have chosen to not define these ops past the capacity barrier of 2TiB @ 0.5KiB/block. Scsi ops xBE/BF are rumoured to work in some places. 2) http://members.aol.com/plscsi/index.html#whatever points us to the (megabyte) documents that discuss these ops e.g. http://www.t13.org/docs2002/d1410r3b.pdf (Ata/pi 6 Feb 2002) (1,767,405 bytes) 3) About Spinrite I know nothing, but thanks for the link. Pat LaVarre http://members.aol.com/plscsi/ -----Original Message----- From: Constantine P Sapuntzakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sun 4/21/2002 12:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [t13] Reading bad sectors This message is from the T13 list server. Hi, Any idea what ATA command a utility like Spinrite (see http://grc.com) uses to look at bad sectors (sectors that fail with an error when read normally)? Thanks, -Costa
