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 1E2uzl-0008MW-Dy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:08:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7AI6UU8031325; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:06:30 GMT Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7AI1qJ4003336 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:01:52 GMT Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1E2uuK-0000mO-HU for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:02:33 -0600 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 (Apple Message framework v733) In-Reply-To: <42FA27F0.1010807@gonoph.net> 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4640C7FF-4B53-4CCA-90AC-E091DAE1CDE1@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dropping harddrives (WAS Which filesystem for a notebook?) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:02:28 -0600 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Archives-Salt: 95d5ce3c-787f-4162-893e-897852712afa X-Archives-Hash: d54a896d8897be49204b9a3b8303b90a On Aug 10, 2005, at 10:14 AM, 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... stiction occurred with drives with autoparking heads... They just park on special zones of the drive that do not contain data Chad > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list