From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 15: 3:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DA237B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C7B43E42 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:03:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0159.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.159] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Rgbh-0006dy-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 18:03:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2A0C13.BF96579@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:02:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Luigi Rizzo , Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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