I thought the hard drive's firmware mapped out the bad blocks invisibly, and if you seeing bad blocks on the drive, it means the drive has already used up all its spare blocks and is failing. True?
> On Aug 16, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Every hard drive has a few bad blocks. The hard drive's firmware maps them > out as the drive is used. I wouldn't worry too much about 0.0002% of the > blocks coming up bad. > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
