On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:50:44AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > These days there are *FEW IF ANY* reasons to do a check and verify. Most > drives have on board error correction (both IDE and SCSI). So, in > essence, it is a waste of time.
And if the on-board error correction can't handle it, the drive is probably on its last legs. > > The only time I'd use it is if the drive is suspect. Since it was a 500G > drive, it is fairly new... unless it was dropped and so on. I bought two drives at the same time. One of them failed the test, the other passed. So I'd say, in retrospect, I probably did the right thing. -- hendrik > -- > [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]
