BTDT, the list could be ten enteries or like one I had with about two hundred enteries. I sent it back as I wasn't going to spend days on it.
You enered the list into the format program, AFAIK the OS read it from the disk on subsequent boots.
At some point they started storing the bad bits list on the drive and the formatter could read it for you (if you were lucky).
A lot of it is, which means that by the time its noticed by the OS the drive is terminally shagged.
I used to write that software. The flaws are often pattern sensitive, and very hard to spot reliably.
I also wrote the stuff that copied the manufacturers flaw list :)
I'm glad those days have gone.
Andy
You do of course monitor your SMART data?
Andy
Yup.
That means I notice before the OS does..
In article , Lee writes
Someone posted on uk.comp.homebuilt recently about massive corruption of an NTFS volume which was used by both Win8 and Linux. I suggested that M$ might have made some subtle change to NTFS in Win8 which broke the Linux NTFS code, but the thread was inconclusive.
But not *identical* pairs ?
Course not - different serial numbers
And not identically failed?
You're getting there, grasshopper
Fantastic Maxie. It is nice to see you impart your wisdom to the ignorant. How is the Paddy band going?
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