On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote: > A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before using > them to allow the disks to map out any "bad spots" early on?
Note: if you once you actually start seeing bad sectors, the drive is almost dead. A drive can remap a pretty large number internally, but once that pool is exhausted (and the number of errors is still growing exponentially), there's not a lot of life left. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
