Thanks for clarifying.

> Again given the subsequent drive failure it is quite possible, even probable, there were no spare data blocks remaining on the drive.

The first thing I looked at after seeing the CCC error pop-up was Disk Warrior's nightly report, done about 10 hours earlier, which showed all 50 spare blocks still available...no use attempts, and for what it's worth, an immediate surface scan turned up only 3 (consecutively numbered) bad blocks. (When bad blocks are remapped to spares do they still show up as bad in a surface scan?)

Edit: I imagine they do...that mapping them out affects the catalog but leaves them "visible" to a surface scan?

I guess Trash's choking comes down to
Originally Posted By: ganbustein
In short, once the catalog is corrupted, all bets are off.

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