From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 19:46:58 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 CB84837B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB9543E3B for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:46:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0460.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.205] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Rl1Z-0004sM-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 22:46:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2A4E68.83C15723@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:46:00 -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: Kris Kirby Cc: chris@aims.com.au, silby@silby.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. References: 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message