Definition: P-List


Primary Defect List. List of defective sectors in a hard drive. The defective sectors may not be used for storing data. The P-List is generated during fabrication. The disk itself stores it internally.




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Unrecoverable Error

A read error that cannot be overcome by an ECC scheme or by rereading the data when host retries are enabled.

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