About a month ago, Scanner reported that two of my drives were exhibiting unreadable sector issues. I evacuated and removed them from the pool, but kept them installed intending to do something about the pair "later" (I'm a master procrastinator).
Since they remained installed, Scanner could still access them and do surface scans. As such, all this time, the Scanner tray icon has been gold (I think it's gold) indicating continuing drive problems.
Until today. I woke up today with the Scanner icon blue. Weird. I initiated a manual scan of both drives and no unreadable sectors were found.
I'm more than a little confused. Did the drives automagically fix themselves at some point? Is it possible the onboard drive firmware remapped the bad sectors to good sectors when my back was turned? Do I dare try to use them at this point or should they still be tossed?
I should note that I did a long format of the drives shortly after Scanner reported the bad sector issues. I was hoping that might trigger a remapping, but it didn't seem to do anything, as Scanner still reported that both drives had bad sectors after a scan.
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About a month ago, Scanner reported that two of my drives were exhibiting unreadable sector issues. I evacuated and removed them from the pool, but kept them installed intending to do something about the pair "later" (I'm a master procrastinator).
Since they remained installed, Scanner could still access them and do surface scans. As such, all this time, the Scanner tray icon has been gold (I think it's gold) indicating continuing drive problems.
Until today. I woke up today with the Scanner icon blue. Weird. I initiated a manual scan of both drives and no unreadable sectors were found.
I'm more than a little confused. Did the drives automagically fix themselves at some point? Is it possible the onboard drive firmware remapped the bad sectors to good sectors when my back was turned? Do I dare try to use them at this point or should they still be tossed?
I should note that I did a long format of the drives shortly after Scanner reported the bad sector issues. I was hoping that might trigger a remapping, but it didn't seem to do anything, as Scanner still reported that both drives had bad sectors after a scan.
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