Subject: Re: NetBSD2.0/sparc not ready for prime time?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/12/2005 13:23:56
On 12.02.05, 10:13:46, David Laight wrote:
>
> Failure of the last few cylinders could be caused by that part of the
> disk being where the heads land when powered off. This does cause some
> damage.
The parking area shouldn't be inside the reported geometry, should
it?
That's the whole point of parking the heads when powering off, so
the heads do _not_ touch down on a used area. This causes more than
just "some" damage, it makes the area unusable very quickly.
>
> David
>
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> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
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