problem cleaning up old drive

[Derek Broughton]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Friday 21 November 2008, Matthew Flaschen wrote:

>>As for the bad sector issue, my understanding (could be
>>wrong about this) is that modern drives automatically drop bad sectors
>>after repeated failures.
> 
> Tell that to a Maxtor 500Gb I just pulled out, 121 bad sectors, none
> re-allocated.  Buggy drive firmware IMNSHO.

Not at all.   It just means that the drive was out of internal space to 
remap the blocks.
-- 
derek