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Re: SATA problem
:On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Bill Hacker wrote:
:> Look at the slices and note that there is 'unused'
:> (and unusable) space showing. Drives will reserve
:> space for a pool of replacements for bad blocks.
:> An OS will reserve a bit more.
:
:Aren't these ununsed areas due to simple alignment
:issues? I was under the impression that the bad block
:management is completely seamless, being one layer
:down, so to speak. Right or wrong?
:
:/Jonas Sundström. www.kirilla.com
Right. Spare blocks are invisible to the operating system.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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