From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 6 10:52:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02423 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (uucp@osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA02305 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:52:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA10519 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:52:05 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id TAA01257; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:05:57 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199802061805.TAA01257@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors In-Reply-To: from Robert Watson at "Feb 5, 98 10:29:35 pm" To: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:05:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, alk@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" 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 --