On Dec 27, 2015 10:35 PM, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at linux-mips.org>
wrote:
SCSI disks are most often shipped formatted with a
pool of spare sectors
available beyond the nominal externally visible capacity, although the
firmware of many allows reformatting with the size of the pool altered, at
the most extreme to zero.
[snip]
I hope this clarifies the matters here a bit.
Quite a lot. Thank you!