On 8/24/09, Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:51:41 -0600, Tim Judd <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's OS/FS independent. it works on the bits stored on the magnetic >> platters, NOT on a filesystem. > > Ah, I see. So it's primarily intended for diagnosing and recovering > from physically defective disks. Good to know, because there are > times when you exactly need to do this. So it's much more "hardware > oriented" than the usual candidates for recovery programs. > > So the strange mentioning of "Linux and other file systems" just > seems to be of a marketing nature. :-)
whatever you would like to call it, I find it accurate description of the product and it avoids false advertising. Not just diagnostics and recovery, it's for preventive maintenance, and healthy operations too. Most people who use it are in a diagnostics and recovery, but if you always use it as preventive maintenance, you'll never need to use it for diagnostics and recovery. People complain about it: "I keep running spinrite, but it never finds problems!" .... exactly, it's doing it's job and not having to recover. It's doing the work the drive needs to swap out bad sectors and everything. > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
