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   > in the lab. I took the factory bad block list, and the grown   
   > defect list, reset them, and had the drive scan for bad blocks.   
   > What was interesting, is the drive exactly reproduced the same   
   > defect list as was present in the lists. This is just in case   
   > you were thinking "oh, those blocks aren't really bad and   
   > a re-scan would uncover lots of good blocks, if only I could   
   > reset the automatic sparing system". In my tests, what I discovered   
   > at the time, is no, resetting any automatic sparing would   
   > achieve nothing. Still, this is a natural hypothesis for users   
   > to reach, that if only they could give the automatic sparing   
   > a whack upside the head, their drive would be "rendered new again".   
   > It's not true. The drive does make good, high quality determinations   
   > of its bad blocks. When it tells you a block is bad, it's bad.   
   > And reproducibly so. These were the first full height 5MB and   
   > 10MB Seagate consumer drives (complete with floppy-like head movement   
   > and stepper motors for driving the head in and out instead of a   
   > voice coil).   
      
   I  remember when a 25mb drive was huge :)   
      
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