From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 19:13:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DEBE37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F7643E65 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0460.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.205] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17RkVd-0005SB-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 22:13:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2A46AF.1C8A2505@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:13:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Bernd Walter , Julian Elischer , Luigi Rizzo , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. References: <3D2A06A9.2F3CB99C@mindspring.com> <20020708221804.GN94279@cicely5.cicely.de> <200207082340.g68Ne4uH048135@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > I've had direct experience with this. Seagate drives will indeed lose > up to two sectors if you are writing during a power loss... and this > is *GOOD* for the industry. You went to "Men In Black II" this weekend, didn't you? Do you have "Conspiracy Theorist" on your business cards? 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message