On Mar 1, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Bruce Black wrote:
Sorry you feel that way.I thought I was nice to the FDR people,
myself. After all at least you are upfront about who you work for
and the information is almost always balanced. Its the marketing
people who I now tend to distrust. You still have your reputation..
Ed, I was kidding (a little). Since you stroked me <gr> here goes
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BTW, on the articles, I think you are a little shortsighted to
dismiss such articles out of hand. Although they may have been
written or sponsored by a vendor to spotlight their product, they
may still include valuable info on the general topic. I can't
speak for other vendors, but for Innovation I can tell you that
such articles are carefully vetted (often by me) to insure that
they are factually accurate. Of course, we want to present the
product in its best light, but we never exaggerate or (gasp!) lie.
So I suggest you mine such articles for the valuable facts, just
keeping in mind the source.
Bruce,
Thanks I found this fairly interesting.
I find such articles highly suspicious and tend to put these at the
bottom of the candidates for selection. I don't tosss them out, but
there are pretty close to no other candidates to do this function.
But to get back at the original question many (12+ years) years ago I
thought that is why IBM came out with the minimal init in ICKDSF. At
least that is what one CR told me when we went through the 3380 to
3390 conversion. Ever since I have been using that before releasing
drives back to the vendor.
I guess I will have to suggest the FDRERASE product. Its always nice
to have two (or more products to choose from) Can you d/l the manual
before buying?
Ed
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