Virgin new out-of-the-box RB5009 shows bad-blocks: 0.1% in system info. Same on 7.12, 7.11 and 7.8.
Is this a kind of software rounding problem that everyone has or it is only me is that lucky?
Thank you, I'm not sure if I can run netinstall from MacOS. But will definitely try when I'll have spare PC.It's not a problem at all. Seems like netinstall makes it go away in my experience but it isn't a problem regardless.
Thank you! Netinstall didn't helped.Honestly, it's not even worth the effort. It has no impact on router performance and is not indicative of any issue at all.
Netinstall formats flash disk in a sense of writing new filesystem metadata. But I highly doubt that it does low-level format of flash which would re-evaluate status of memory cells (marked as bad previously). And even if it did do that, the result might be the same state (bad memory cell). This might even be due to manufacturing deffect.Thank you! Netinstall didn't helped.Honestly, it's not even worth the effort. It has no impact on router performance and is not indicative of any issue at all.