> -- most people assume that there is no bad block on the disks > when using DD to copy data > - if there is a bad block on the master, you copy > that to the clone Not true. IDE drives transparently remap bad sectors, so you'll not see a bad sector on an IDE drive unless the remap area is full, then the drive is toast anyway. Regardless, the disk driver will return an error to the application program if there is an error reading data, so it is not possible to copy a bad sector from one disk to another. -- Ed Carp, N7EKG http://www.pobox.com/~erc 214/986-5870 Licensed Texas Peace Officer Computer Crime Investigation Consultant Director, Software Development Escapade Server-Side Scripting Engine Development Team Pensacola - Dallas - London - Dresden http://www.squishedmosquito.com "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed-- and thus clamorous to be led to safety-- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H. L. Mencken ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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