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Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB



On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 22:02 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Woo, I got to work with an ST102. Used for a Netware 2.0a server.
compsurf'd that boy in about 6 days. Woot and all that.

I had a Winchester drive (don't remember the model) with 380+ bad
sectors to fill in the bad sector table with edlin, then jump to the
low-level formatting program embedded in the Winchester drive
controllers... I then got to install "Net-Share" (the precursor to
Netware) and it couldn't use the whole drive, only after preparing the
drive for 3-4 days. I got to "re-try" again

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