Mike McCarty wrote:
... If power fails during a write, and the drive scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed.
But the disks almost surely don't scribble on the disk in a spiral pattern. (They'd detect that power is failing (voltage is dropping) and turn off the write current before that happened.) Daniel --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]