From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2xUg-0001FJ-IU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:48:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7AKkAYp029483; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:46:10 GMT Received: from charlotte.ctrust.com (gatorvet.com [207.59.126.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7AKfmld010457 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:41:49 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.92] (unknown [192.168.100.92]) by charlotte.ctrust.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DBC75CE2A for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:48:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42FA66B8.2030801@cfrscca.net> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:42:32 -0400 From: Craig Zeigler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dropping harddrives (WAS Which filesystem for a notebook?) References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> <42F821EF.6050400@asmallpond.org> <42F8F27F.5030303@gonoph.net> <200508092046.23474.trapni@gentoo.org> <42FA220F.6020609@gonoph.net> <600D2122-CE57-4A7E-8D0D-471C204E7308@shire.net> <42FA27F0.1010807@gonoph.net> In-Reply-To: <42FA27F0.1010807@gonoph.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 654e816e-c4fe-4e1b-a680-d3d11a6de0ee X-Archives-Hash: e56d5b5a112fb25e14e1564be1f4369b Billy Holmes wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > >> Probably was suffering from "stiction" (google it) > > > I'm pretty sure this HD had autoparking heads (I'm almost positive all > IDE drives have). I could see it being a problem if it was an MFM > drive however... Not all IDE drives have/had autopark heads. I know this was many many moons ago, but the first couple hard drives I owned <50MB didn't have autopark heads. you had to tell it to park the heads, and I know they were IDE drives cause I still have them around. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list