(BTW, there was someone here mentioning breaking up a raid array for the purpose of hiding bad sectors. Modern drives automatically relocate bad sectors. If you start to get errors from a modern drive, its a mechanical, electrical, or really big media failure)
I beg to differ, only SCSI drives guarentee sector reallocation dynamically. That's what you're paying for, a smart controller. IDE drives generally depend on the user to run an DOS util to get the same effect. Check the IBM DFT tool, Seagate Seatools and Maxtor Maxblast. They all do external sector reallocation. Very rarely do low end IDE drives perform this function automatically. I've repaired at least a dozen drives using the external tool and gotten service from them as good as new.
Breaking up the drive doesn't "HIDE" the sectors, it mitigates the resync time. Sector failure tends to occur in clusters, not wide spread across a drive. By making the partition smaller you decrease repair time after you've done the repair.
Check your drive. SMART Keys 5, 197 and 198 indicate sectors which are either reallocated or need to be.
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