[BC] Comparing computers & parts

[Cowboy]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 06:24 pm, Lamar Owen wrote:
>  On Monday 29 October 2007, Kevin Tekel wrote:
>  > Oh, and remember MiniScribe?  Yikes, their drives were horrid -- slow,
>  > NOISY, and poorly constructed.  Even brand new, they were loaded with bad
>  > sectors.  
>  
>  All hard drives have bad sectors.  The ATA interface just hides them through 
>  remapping of spares.  Many times the 'recovery scan' in the diagnostics just 
>  does a remap of found bad sectors with spares; when you're out of spares the 
>  drive is billed as 'bad' by the diags when in reality it might not be bad or 
>  failing. 

 Thus, the primary reason one never really wants to attempt a true low level format.

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Cowboy