From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 23:25:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734F737BBF6 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:25:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (rh14.bfm.org [216.127.220.207]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 01:25:47 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000418012350.0092a460@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 01:23:50 -0500 To: Brett Glass , From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: RE: M$ anti-trust case In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000417181245.0463d770@localhost> References: <3.0.6.32.20000417174932.00890630@mail85.pair.com> <4.2.2.20000417163757.03d33870@localhost> <3.0.6.32.20000417141142.008aee60@mail85.pair.com> <001201bfa891$92066480$021d85d1@youwant.to> <3.0.6.32.20000417104107.0088ee50@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 18:14 17-04-2000 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >Not true. Scandisk has, for a long time, had a mode in which it does a >"deep scan" and refreshes the data on the disk. Gibson examined their >code and discovered that they had incorporated some of his code >VERBATIM! Wouldn't surprise me. Nevertheless, their "deep scan" is not as deep as Steve's. His deepest scan not only refreshes the data, it reformats the underlying hardware while doing it. It takes about an hour on my old 1 Gig drive, while ScanDisk's deep scan takes a lot less time. They may have incorporated some of his code, but SpinRite still rules. Though, admittedly, it does not seem to be as well known (relative to the number of computer users) as it was some ten years ago. And it should be! Steve is one of the good guys in computer industry. Cheers, Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message