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The Friday 2007-03-02 at 15:45 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
> > There is no need for that with FAT.
>
> The disk drive oem utilities I've seen usually don't deal at the filesystem
> level.
But FAT does. Bad sectors can be marked on the FAT.
> > Also, many disks handle that transparently.
>
> That's why I look for manufacturer-supplied utilities in these situations.
> They're designed for the specific hardware and firmware in question.
But you don't need to do anything if the disk has that capability. You
simply write to a bad sector, and it gets automatically remapped to a new
one, reserved on factory, till the factory list is full.
It is OS transparent, implemented on the disk firmware.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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