> No. Modern IDE disks should auto-remap bad blocks, just like SCSI.
> I guess the bad block table of your disk is full (this is where supporting
> SMART would be usefull :)

Is there any SMART specification ? IBM SCSI disks return SMART info
in vendor-specific data, for other vendors I could not find any detailed
specification at all ...

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