Disk error??

[Tony Nelson]

On 10-03-02 22:43:13, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 18:20:37 -0800,
>   Don Quixote de la Mancha <quixote at dulcineatech.com> wrote:
> > 
> > If the only problem was that some sectors got remapped, it 
> > shouldn't be failing any of the tests.  At worst, it would simply 
> > report that the remapping had taken place, but that the test had 
> > passed.
> 
> If you have pending reallocations you can get errors on the surface
> scans.  And one often needs to write a block to allow for 
> reallocation to occur, so these can sit around for a while.

Palimpsest is worse than that.  It claims a disk that has any 
*reallocated* sectors is bad.

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