. Fine. To dismiss without investigating is simply ignorant. I started investigating when I couldn't believe manufacturers had hundreds of disks on test rigs for hours assiduously doing their low-level formatting. I realize that this information does not conform to the "rigid orthodoxy", but it is something I've checked out in-depth. For those who AREN'T into puking on people, research it independently. Give it a go. You won't be disappointed. The rest of you can sod off. You give Linux a bad name with your crap attitudes. Let's see: Michael Nelson, Ben Rosenberg, SuSEnixER, Jerry Van Brimmer Any more? Do you have any idea how many people you turn off with this attitude? What a bunch of egotistical fecking garbage. Mean people SUCK! Feckin' former IBMers. BTW, my nick alludes to a practice on Slashdot, which newbies are generally not familiar with. On Wednesday, 24 April 2002 17:06, you wrote:
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:20:13PM -0500, Anon. Coward wrote: -> -> All modern diskdrives have automatic error-checking, and in some cases -> -correction. And NO modern disk drives are low-level formatted at the -> factory. (Just LISTEN to me) There is a bit that can be set that does -> block-integrity checking during the period of the FIRST TEN POWER-CYCLES of -> the drive. After that there is no block-checking, believe it or not. -> -> If you do NOT fill up that drive within the first ten power-cycles you will -> likely have intermittant, unexplained corruptions. This is true whether you -> run Winduds, Linux, whatever.
You certainly have an active imagination.
Michael