> And I think there's a problem with drives that, upon sensing the 
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> unreadable sector, assign an alternate even though the sector is fine, and 
> you eventually run out of spares.

You are assuming drives can't tell the difference between stray data loss
and sectors that can't be recovered by rewriting and reuse. I was under
the impression modern drives could do this ?

Alan
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