You are rude dude! get a life and be real. Bil ! -----Original Message----- ! From: Anon. Coward [mailto:quantum@ultra2k.com] ! Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:02 PM ! To: suse-linux-e@suse.com ! Subject: [SLE] Polish That Disk ! ! ! . ! 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 ! ! -- ! To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ! For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ! ! Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com !