f3read - meaning of the numbers

[traut21]

Thanks for this great helper tool.

But what's the actual meaning of the numbers that f3read tells me?

I'm still on F3 Read 7.2. This version told me

              SECTORS      ok/corrupted/changed/overwritten

Validating file 1.h2w ... 2097152/ 0/ 0/ 0

I think I read about 2 GB files that were written to the drive as default. But the actual files are all 1 073 741 824 bytes (1.07 GB on disk). So it is the number of 512 kB blocks? Maybe this should be mentioned somewhere - or there would be an output option in other formats.

[AltraMayor]

The numbers mean the number of sectors that:

• ok: sectors are fine.
• corrupted: sectors are damaged.
• changed: sectors are not completely damaged, but they have a couple of bytes that are failing.
• overwritten: sectors are being mapped over other sectors.

The files are 1GB in length, not 2GB.

A sector is a 512-byte block.