From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 27 05:34:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA23876 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 05:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA23859 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 05:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id OAA10360; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 14:04:12 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA04888; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 14:04:11 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id OAA00821; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 14:01:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512271301.OAA00821@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 4GB Seagate Barracuda (Hawk Replacement) goes nuts after a while To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 14:01:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net, karl@mcs.com, Peter.Delaney@eng.sun.com, jbryant@argus.iadfw.net.hq.icb.chel.su, fnf@amigalib.com, bardhan@corp.megatest.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, karl@mcs.net In-Reply-To: <199512270913.OAA09599@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Dec 27, 95 02:13:43 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Serge A. Babkin wrote: > > I have noticed an interesting fact. Hard disks of some menufacturers when > purchased in brand-name computers are much more stable than when > purchased independently. I know it from the times when i've been working with Data General machines that they've been using private firmware revisions in their disks. The funny thing was that the DG drives always had a few sectors more than independently bought ones, so dd'ing a disk was impossible. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)