How many BAD BLK?

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(07-26-2014 11:52 AM)Thomas Radtke Wrote:  

(07-25-2014 02:49 PM)Tim Wessman Wrote:  Not at all. They have been marked as problematic and are not in use. They won't be increasing or anything and having blocks "suddenly" go bad. They basically come that way from the chip manufacturer.

Out of interest: Why did you make that number easily accessible? Isn't this asking for trouble where there's no problem really? No criticism, I like this kind of openness, of course.

It reminds me of the old MFM hard drive days. Manufacturers always included a sticker on the drive that showed bad sectors. I never had to do anything with the list since DOS format automatically locked out bad ones. Nowadays with IDE drives, any flaws are hidden and never cause a problem either.
Tom L