On Monday 15 September 2003 11:56 pm, Paul Taylor wrote:

> Bad sectors happen to magnetic drives and is no indication the drive is
> faulty unless they fail often or a lot. IDE, SCSI, or SATA is not
> relevant.

You miss the point, Paul, if an IDE drive REPORTS a bad sector, something is 
wrong with the drive, because the translation firmware should never reveal a 
bad sector to the OS.