From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Aug 19 8:54:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6B215A05 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id RAA10303; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:34:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA60432; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:19:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199908191019.MAA60432@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Defect Lists + camcontrol commands In-Reply-To: <199908190317.WAA76137@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Aug 18, 1999 10:17:12 pm" To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net (David Kelly) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:19:31 +0200 (CEST) Cc: ken@kdm.org, clash@tasam.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As David Kelly wrote ... > "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: > > > Is this a normal number of defects? > > ... > Then again there is always an exception. We had a 1G Conner HD that > insisted it had no factory bad blocks. I don't believe it partly because > when put to the test it grew 7. And partly because it was a crappy > drive. There is nothing that stops a manufacturer from remapping bad blocks 'below the surface' and presenting the drive as having no factory bad blocks. Maybe that is what happened to your Conner. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message