Re: [OT] Howl of soul...

Pavel Zaitsev (pavel@md5.ca)
Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:30:39 -0700


Samium Gromoff(_deepfire@mail.ru)@Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:01:38AM +0000:
> > A low-level format (using IBM DFT) is going to *silently* remap bad
> > parts of the disk. It's only going to complain once it's no longer
> > possible to remap the bad sectors. So, just because the low-level format
> > doesn't complain does not mean that there is no media degradation!

My drive has suffered simiar failure. After being fixed or replaced is
all fine. No problems and fast access times. If it fails again, I will
not buy IBM anymore. One of companies I worked for, wanted to buy a mainframe,
but technical staff they were sending us, were might as well been Futureshop/Frys
salesment types to help with understanding how loaner worked. Service for
rack equipment we ordered at the time was terrible. There were awfully fast,
but we had to figure all the stuff ourselves. Sort of like during MITS times,
were you put your computer together. Duh.
p.

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