:> > Julian got struck by lightning; perhaps he will now stick to disks
:> > with built-in lightning rods (e.g. not succeptible to this failure),
:> > e.g. SCSI.
:>
:> This is an urban ledgend..
:
:No - it's SCSI Specs.
:A SCSI Disk is required to savely finish the started sector even
:on powerloss.
:If all drives fullfill this requirement is another story.
:
:--
:B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de
No, it's an urban legend. Someone actually buttonholed a Seagate
engineer a couple of years back and he said with absolute certainty
that a Seagate drive would lose up to two sectors, but not more
then that.
I've had direct experience with this. Seagate drives will indeed lose
up to two sectors if you are writing during a power loss... and this
is *GOOD* for the industry. Quantum drives (more direct experience
on my part) have been known to lose whole tracks and even multiple
tracks.
-Matt
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
