Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 04/03/07 20:17, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Daniel B. wrote:
>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>> ... 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.
>>
>>
>> But the disks almost surely don't scribble on the disk in a spiral
>> pattern.  (They'd detect that power is failing (voltage is dropping)
>> and turn off the write current before that happened.)
> 
> You obviously do not speak from experience with the same hardware
> I've had experience with. The Seagate ST138 was NOTORIOUS for this,
> for example.

The ST138????

Christ on a stick, man, that's *ANCIENT*!!!!!

Seagate has had a lot of improvements since they released the
*half-height* 32*MB* (that's correct: megabyte, not gigabyte) drive.

Heck, at work I had a 40MB drive in 1988.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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