On 9 November 2010 23:30, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 9/11/2010, at 4:04pm, Alex Schuster wrote: >> ... >>> I need to mention here that the machine is a laptop which I use >>> regularly on train journeys (bumpy ride). The drive has a Seagate >>> G-Force Protection™ which is meant to park the head in case of a fall. >> >> Which probably would not help in the train, unless you drop it there. > > Further to Alex's comment: the G-Force Protection™ probably parks the head in > the event that the laptop goes weightless (a cheap sensor built into the > drive would be quite adequate to detect that), but it probably takes half a > second to do so. In the case of up and down jolts I'm not sure that it would > detect those the same way - maybe it is indeed clever enough to do so, but > would it have time to park the head?
Thank you all, I have now completed exhaustive (and exhausting) tests with memtest86+, memtester and badblocks. They did not show errors. So if I am to believe all the results I have gathered the disk and memory should be OK. Have you had any problems with this Seagate Momentus 7200? Have you had any fs corruptions with Reiser4? -- Regards, Mick
