On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Greg Freemyer wrote:

Does it also do background scans looking for unreadable sectors, or does 
it just wait for it to occur naturally?

As far as I know, you have to issue/schedule a full scan for it to find 
the errors, it won't do continous background scanning like some hw 
controllers out there.

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