-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/07 20:17, Mike McCarty wrote: > Daniel B. wrote: >> 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.) > > You obviously do not speak from experience with the same hardware > I've had experience with. The Seagate ST138 was NOTORIOUS for this, > for example.
The ST138???? Christ on a stick, man, that's *ANCIENT*!!!!! Seagate has had a lot of improvements since they released the *half-height* 32*MB* (that's correct: megabyte, not gigabyte) drive. Heck, at work I had a 40MB drive in 1988. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGExVZS9HxQb37XmcRArUQAKDSMgNDD4lpbYo55k3HvdNtZLpsXQCfad0l hIl1vOQEEMjgDYsZ+muBVqw= =vmbe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
