I'd appreciate if you would not CC me, as I request in the X-Followup-To header and the signature of each email.
> It could be a bad controller on the motherboard and > it sounds like it. You may be damaging hard drives with > a bad mootherboard. Right, but using five different machines? > My disks seem to last for years, unless they > are in drive pulling cases and overheat. I am currently investigating overheating. > Does badblocks write the list of badblocks to the > hard disk so that it remembers badblocks from run to > run and when you moved the hard drive? No. In my experience, one bad block means that the drive is doomed to accumulate more. > I used to design disk drive electronics for a living at Quantum. Quamtum is the only drive that hasn't borked on me yet. Thanks. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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