Talk:Sector slipping

Hi,

I am a newer user to wikipedia and was wondering if I could ask for your input on my article Sector slipping. I noticed that you have worked on other computer related articles and thought you may be able to help me.

Thanks! Fanax 21:34, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Fanax, it seems interesting... though I do wonder: Couldn't (shouldn't?) it be merged into the main article Hard disk drive? Other than that: I would divide the content into at least two (and maybe three) main sections:

1. What happens before a disk is truly low-level formatted. And you should know that until one is, there is no such thing as a 'block' or 'sector' capable of holding data; unless we're discussing something like a floppy disk or a very old HDD which uses CHS logic to physically access its blocks (sectors).

2. What can happen after a disk is truly low-level formatted. Can "sector slipping" still be applied at that time?

3. Possibly what happens if "bad sectors" are encountered after a disk has been PARTITIONED (which is what some people mistakenly call 'low-level' formatting) and then has data added to many sectors on the disk (usually as an OS and user data).

In parts of your article, you seem to be using the word 'sector' too loosely, in that we do not know exactly what you mean. Perhaps you can try to specify if it's a physical area on a hard disk (that might not even be used as a raw block for data after low-level formatting), or if it's a block of user's data that could become corrupted later on. We could, of course, reword things, add reference numbers in the text, etc. etc. Daniel B. Sedory 23:07, 27 October 2007 (UTC)