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> From: Alan McKinnon
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Cc: Grant Edwards
> Apparently, though unproven, at 17:34 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Grant
> Edwards did opine thusly:
> > On 2010-11-16, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > >> spinrite claims to make the head do oth
On 2010-11-16, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 17:34 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Grant
> Edwards did opine thusly:
>
>> On 2010-11-16, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> >> spinrite claims to make the head do other things than what the drive
>> >> firmware makes it do.
>>
>> I'm afr
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 16:20:37 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> for several reasons, first being that the thing is written in
> assembler.
Ah! Come back 1974 - all is forgiven :-)
--
Rgds
Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
On 16 November 2010 16:20, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 17:34 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Grant
> Edwards did opine thusly:
>
>> On 2010-11-16, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> >> spinrite claims to make the head do other things than what the drive
>> >> firmware makes it do.
>>
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:34 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Grant
Edwards did opine thusly:
> On 2010-11-16, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> >> spinrite claims to make the head do other things than what the drive
> >> firmware makes it do.
>
> I'm afraid I'll have to call bullshit on that. I don'
On 2010-11-16, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> spinrite claims to make the head do other things than what the drive
>> firmware makes it do.
I'm afraid I'll have to call bullshit on that. I don't see how some
bit of PC software can make a drive head move. The firmware on the
drive controller board is t
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