Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:18:05 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, 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: <20020708221804.GN94279@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081452330.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <3D2A06A9.2F3CB99C@mindspring.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081452330.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:53:20PM -0700, 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.. No - it's SCSI Specs. A SCSI Disk is required to savely finish the started sector even on powerloss. If all drives fullfill this requirement is another story. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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