Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/26/07 21:04, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip]This is untrue. If power fails during a write, and the drive scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed.Does that happen anymore? Drive manufacturers engineered that problem away long ago, I think.
I dunno. It's been perhaps 6 or 8 years since I worked on
file systems and hardware interfaces with discs. You may
be right.
Mike
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