RE: [expert] My suggestion for the install process on the New Distro....

[Jose M. Sanchez]

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-> It should remap bad spots and warn you of any as they occur. Though the
-> messages are still a bit cryptic... "This drive is developing problems...
-> please replace".


Actually, that error message is suitably concise for most users, aka "user
scum" :-)

The URL Freshmeat points to is 404ed. A quick search on Google showed some
Mandrake RPMs, though.

Thanks for pointing it out to me. It looks interesting.

Now, can we get something like it for SCSI drives?

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Ironic isn't it. The "smarter" of the two devices has now has the seemingly
inferior error/failure detection mechanism...

-JMS