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Date:      Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:46:00 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>
Cc:        chris@aims.com.au, silby@silby.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.
Message-ID:  <3D2A4E68.83C15723@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0207090240310.53995-100000@spaz.catonic.net>

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Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > Does anyone have a detailed list of which SCSI drives do track writes
> > > rather than sector writes?
> >
> > All the broken ones.
> 
> Could you be a little more specific? :-)

Hard drive selection has always been an exclusion set, not an
inclusion set.

Annoying as that may be, it's no less true.

Personally I like Hitachi hard drives; now that they are buying
the DeathStar line from IBM, though... 8-(.

-- Terry

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