Unusual stuff inside computers

ben bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Mon Aug 3 16:51:13 CDT 2015


On 8/3/2015 3:25 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 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".

Written on the drive, is a lot different than paper floating around inside

> --Chuck
I think soon we need to look for real cpu chips, everything will
be microsoft hardware.
Ben.





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