Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:05:57 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org Cc: mike@smith.net.au, alk@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors Message-ID: <199802061805.TAA01257@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980205222631.20242B-100000@fledge.watson.org> from Robert Watson at "Feb 5, 98 10:29:35 pm"
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As Robert Watson wrote... > On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Should bad144 be retired? > > > > I get the distinct feeling that the time has prettymuch come for this, > > yes. It's only real use is for old 'wd' disks, most of whom are dead > > and gone. > > > > Killing it from the boot floppy in particular would win us some more > > space. > > Hey! :) My Kerberos server is running quite happily on a hard disk that I > have had for the last 9 or 10 years. Great drive -- all of my Maxtors > have lasted really well. It has one or two bad sectors, but has had those [snip] > > As to why I kept the machine? A Kerberos server just does a little DES, > and why fix something that is clearly not broken? Right! And I cannot really understand why in parallel to this thread people are discussing adding useless junk (IMHO) called 'splash screens' to FreeBSD. If I wanted graphical junk during install I'll go for M$ stuff. On the other hand if people wanted to create an graphical install like Solaris Sparc has... Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix --
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