On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:40:04PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> > 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.
After searching I've found the text I remembered in a german book describing SCSI :( But I have not found it in the ansi docs. Seems like I was just wrong and this is indeed a legend. Sorry for the missleading statement. > 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. Not loosing unrelated data realy is a big difference. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
