[Nottingham] Big biiig problem regarding IDE-RAID

[Martin]

Lee wrote:
[...]
> What I can't seem to find out is how IDE RAID handles bad sectors, okay,
> I can keep going in the event of a total drive failure, but what happens
> if one drive develops a clump of bad sectors, ...

The later drives have a firmware feature whereby they have a few sectors 
kept spare (unused) that are then automatically mapped into use to 
replace bad sectors elsewhere.

Otherwise, its an OS filesystem task to maintain a table of bad sectors.

Regards,
Martin


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