On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Aaron wrote:
>
> What about "SMART" ("S.M.A.R.T.") status and functionality?
> Shouldn't the drive's built-in SMART routines map out bad blocks?
> If they do, will the Surface Scan still try to read those blocks?
AFAIK, original S.M.A.R.T. Status didn't do any disk corrective
actions: only measures exceeding certain values.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
Looks like newer technologies may also try to do this corrective
action you talk about.
I always thought (Re)Formatting a drive, zeroing out data, did the
bad sector mapping out, but only during the formatting process.
But that destroys all user data.
Bill Connelly
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