Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:21:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> 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: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081516390.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <3D2A0C13.BF96579@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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-). According to the specs I had access to at Whistle they were pretty much the same low level device with different interface logic. The ATA drives I have seen had a format capacity just like their scsi cousins, just hard to find. > > -- Terry > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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