Dude, your like a day late and a dollar short. This thread died a long time ago. *laugh* * SteelHead (bill@ries-knight.net) [020531 11:12]: ::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 ::! :: :: :: ::-- ::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 :: -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--