Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 14:01:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) 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 Subject: Re: 4GB Seagate Barracuda (Hawk Replacement) goes nuts after a while Message-ID: <199512271301.OAA00821@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512270913.OAA09599@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Dec 27, 95 02:13:43 pm
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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. ;-)
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