Unusual stuff inside computers

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Mon Aug 3 16:25:37 CDT 2015


On 08/03/2015 11:33 AM, ben wrote:

> If is that bad, time for a new drive.


Perhaps you don't remember but old ST506-style drives had no automatic 
bad sector remapping, so even new ones had "bad sector" maps affixed by 
the manufacturer.  Most often these were in the form of "byte offset 
from index".

--Chuck


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