Re: BIOS startup ??

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• From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:43:42 +0100
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> 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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