Surface Scan

[Rusty]

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:29 pm, Leo J Mauler wrote:
> 
> > Surface scan is like the sector tests performed during a format,
> and it
> > remaps the hard drive to compensate for any new bad or failing
> sectors on
> > the platters.
> 
> But Leo, it can't do that on an IDE drive where the sectors are all
> virtual 
> entities mapped by the firmware on the drive.

And yet that's (my understanding of) what scandisk does as well. What
would be its purpose if it couldn't find and map around bad sectors? 

It is a Windows utility, and the majority of those installations are on
IDE drives, so it "makes sense" that it would function on those drives.

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