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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>
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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