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.
Mike
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