On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:15 -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > > > > The second drive is testing out fine -- so fat. I did a mke2fs -c -c on > > it, and it's been checking bad blocks ever sing Friday. First writing > > blocks full of 0xaa, then reading them back, then repeating with -x55 > > and 0xff ... that's as far as I saw when I went to bed Saturday night. > > I presume it went on to try 0x00 next.... It takes a long long time. > > So far, no problems found. > > Yes, a long time. Took about 40 hours. A USB stick of Flash... they only have a FINITE number of times they can be written to. Yes it is quite high a number, but think in 40 hours how many times does the format write to a location during verify? Too many times for a device like flash. In effect, you have tremendously reduced the useful life of your device. -- greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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