3 Aug
2015
3 Aug
'15
3:12 p.m.
> On Aug 3, 2015, at 14:51 , ben <bfranchuk at
jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> Written on the drive, is a lot different than paper floating around inside
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Mark J. Blair wrote:
The bad blocks were "written on the drive"
in the sense that they were
written or printed on a paper label stuck to the top of the drive, not
stored digitally on the drive platter(s). I may be mistaken, but I have
a memory rattling around in my head of the bad block list even being
printed on greenbar paper at final test, which was then cut with
scissors and Scotch taped to the top of the drive. So, they were very
literally "written on the drive" in layman's terms.
Some were written on paper and taped to the drive. Before long, MOST
manufacturers went to writing them on a lable stuck to the drive.