Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 02:53:12AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > I refuse. sformat is nothing to play with and it's not used normally. I
> > even don't have it installed at all, neither on my nor on the most important
> > Debian servers.
>
> And how do you propose to fix a bad scsi-disk on a system without a
> controller bios to format the drive (eg. on non-x86 platforms like
> the alpha: it happened to me on my multia and i had to cook up a second
> rescue disk with sformat on it). There is no need to offer that option
> in the installation menu, just put it on for the odd event when you
> need it.
The answer is to use the software/hardware provided by the vendor.
Joey is right -- this will not be changing for potato.
> What is your position on the "badblocks -w" test during installation.
> Lots of people, myself included, don't mind the extra time just to
> be sure their harddisk has no badblocks. Call me paranoid if you like
> but i have seen quite a few harddisk which checkout ok with a read-only
> test only to produce errors later on as soon as data was written to
> those blocks.
Our position is that we let users use it but do not set that as teh
default.
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