BIOS startup ??
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Aug 20 09:43:42 UTC 2007
> One thing I've wondered: If the very beginning of a drive goes bad, is
> the drive able to remap that in a way that makes it seem like the
> replacement is the very beginning (so you can still read a MBR and boot
> from the drive)?
Modern drives are an entire OS and filesystem loaded off the media by
boot code on the drive ROM. They can do that and a whole load more.
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