On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:27:29PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:15 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > The second drive is testing out fine -- so fat. I did a mke2fs -c -c on > > > it, and it's been checking bad blocks ever sing Friday. First writing > > > blocks full of 0xaa, then reading them back, then repeating with -x55 > > > and 0xff ... that's as far as I saw when I went to bed Saturday night. > > > I presume it went on to try 0x00 next.... It takes a long long time. > > > So far, no problems found. > > > > Yes, a long time. Took about 40 hours. > > A USB stick of Flash... they only have a FINITE number of times they can > be written to. Yes it is quite high a number, but think in 40 hours how > many times does the format write to a location during verify?
Four. > Too many > times for a device like flash. > > In effect, you have tremendously reduced the useful life of your device. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Except that is really was a 500GB USB disk drive, not flash. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
