relocation info

Fri May 2 03:03:46 PDT 2003

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:33:09PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
>
> I suppose the drive would probably return an error telling you its spare
> area is full.  I don't know of any way to figure out how many bad blocks a
> drive can handle other than that.

	The number of available spare sectors is available from the
Format Device mode page (03h), see section 6.1.3.4 of SBC-2.

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