On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 06:35 -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:27:29PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > 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? > > Four. > > > Too many > > times for a device like flash. > > > > In effect, you have tremendously reduced the useful life of your device. > > Except that is really was a 500GB USB disk drive, not flash. These days there are *FEW IF ANY* reasons to do a check and verify. Most drives have on board error correction (both IDE and SCSI). So, in essence, it is a waste of time. The only time I'd use it is if the drive is suspect. Since it was a 500G drive, it is fairly new... unless it was dropped and so on. -- 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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