Practice - Bad Blocks
Practice Questions
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What are bad blocks?
💡 Hint: Think about physical damage and defects.
What does ECC stand for?
💡 Hint: What helps detect and correct errors on disks?
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What are bad blocks?
💡 Hint: What does it mean when sectors are described as 'bad'?
True or False: Sector sparing allows the operating system to interact directly with bad blocks.
💡 Hint: What happens instead of direct interaction?
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a disk with bad blocks that has not been managed effectively. Outline a scenario reflecting what could happen to stored data over time.
💡 Hint: Think about how essential the integrity of data is to a computer's performance.
How does error-correcting code improve system reliability in the context of bad blocks?
💡 Hint: What scenarios could occur without such error detection?
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