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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: 386BSD and IDE drives Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:23:30 GMT Message-ID: <BvJ036.BsE@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <1992Sep24.022400.19483@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <Bv32LD.K9t@chinet.chi.il.us> <id.O7NT.0O3@ferranti.com> <BvCCD0.5J0@chinet.chi.il.us> Lines: 14 In <BvCCD0.5J0@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes: >In article <id.O7NT.0O3@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: >>> Never a need to run bad144 or worry about bad sectors. >>Oh, you should worry. Trust me. > With IDE/SCSI? Please elaborate. Because catastrophic disk failures announce themself some weeks before by suddenly developing bad sectors. Thisway you get an early warning. -- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org AIX is a better... is a better... is a better... OpenSystem. IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92