Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:02:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. Message-ID: <3D2A0C13.BF96579@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081452330.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Julian got struck by lightning; perhaps he will now stick to disks > > with built-in lightning rods (e.g. not succeptible to this failure), > > e.g. SCSI. > > This is an urban ledgend.. That SCSI disks don't use random inter-record gap placement like IDE does, particularly on the "multimedia" drives that ignore the need for thermal recalibration, so as to not make video capture "jittery"? Or that SCSI II directly supports low level track formatting, without requiring a "magic tool"? 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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