On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 22:02 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > 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.
Woo, I got to work with an ST102. Used for a Netware 2.0a server. compsurf'd that boy in about 6 days. Woot and all that. I had a Winchester drive (don't remember the model) with 380+ bad sectors to fill in the bad sector table with edlin, then jump to the low-level formatting program embedded in the Winchester drive controllers... I then got to install "Net-Share" (the precursor to Netware) and it couldn't use the whole drive, only after preparing the drive for 3-4 days. I got to "re-try" again -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
