Hi Andrew,

you wrote in <199506121205.OAA01450@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de>:
> We (at least I am.) are talking about remapping bad 
> sectors that fail even on repeated read-access. Thus 
> SCSI will NOT remap these sectors automatically.

Of course it will.

> No it doesn't happen very often (once in two years.).

I've used a dozen SCSI harddisk in the past 5 years and I NEVER had
to do any bad block remapping.

But I think this discussion is somehow off-topic on this list.

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Matthias Scheler
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