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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:18:05 +0200
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
	Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>,
	Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.
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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:53:20PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Julian got struck by lightning; perhaps he will now stick to disks
> > with built-in lightning rods (e.g. not succeptible to this failure),
> > e.g. SCSI.
> 
> This is an urban ledgend..

No - it's SCSI Specs.
A SCSI Disk is required to savely finish the started sector even
on powerloss.
If all drives fullfill this requirement is another story.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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