From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: Overagressive failing of disk reads, both LIBATA and IDE
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:01:40 -0400
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Mark Lord wrote:
..
> I think it could be even more clever, using a binary search or something
> on the remaining chunks, so that it takes less time to skip over a huge
> stretch of sequential bad sectors (scratch on media).  That would probably
> be best all around.
..

Heh.. pity that spinning media cannot do a "READ BACKWARDS" type of operation.

:)