secure erase drive errors

[Chris Murphy]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:04 PM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, then, the drive is DeD dead ????

Write errors are essentially fatal because it means there are no more
reserve sectors available. Normally a write error is never reported by
the device to the kernel because the drive remaps the LBA to a reserve
sector. A write error happens when there are no more reserve sectors.


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Chris Murphy