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- From: trumbull@allegro.unx.sas.com (Ed Trumbull)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
- Subject: Limits to the number of badspots a disk drive can have??
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 22:00:54 GMT
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- Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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- Does Prime say that a disk drive is bad if the number of badspots
- on it exceed a given figure? For example, if I have an 817 MB disk
- drive with over 1000 badspots on it, would CVservice say that the
- drive was bad, and replace it? If there is such a limit, what is it?
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- Ed Trumbull <trumbull@sas.com> SAS Institute, Inc. Cary NC USA
- No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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