On 19/06/2019 09:04, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:15:40 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

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You're thinking of the Red Book specification for CDs and DVDs

No I am not. I am thinking about the hard drive retrying writing
a sector when it doesnt initially succeed in writing a sector.

Let's see if we can think up a technical name for that so everyone
knows what we are talking about ... how about 'Read after write
verification and / or 'Bad block remapping'?

HDD don't do read after write verification.
Tape drives do by having two heads.



And are you sure it's always done in the drive, not also by the OS?


Bad block mapping can be done by the drive and/or the OS.