oh hell...
Sorry, writing in parallel in two different
threads really hurts...
should forward this to [OT] Howl of soul...
> > > i feel like the media isn`t downgrading because
> > > the badblocks _arent_ physical: low-level drive
> > > reformat doesnt show anything.
> > the low-level format merely remaps bad blocks to spare ones.
> > eventually, you'll run out of spare blocks, and then...
> no no no - when ibm DFT (drive fitness test)
> runs on physical bblks i _hear_ this! (and also
it tells me).
[ship]
---cheers,
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