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I'm not that old, but I remember seeing bad sector lists as stickers on some hard disks. I'm not sure if that ever went away, though... I think the IDE firmwar
by bitwize 3y ago
I'm not that old, but I remember seeing bad sector lists as stickers on some hard disks.
I'm not sure if that ever went away, though... I think the IDE firmware in more modern hard disks knew how to redirect bad sectors to good sectors, so the end user never even noticed.