According to Peter Flinkfelt: While burning my CPU.
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> > 1) IDE drives have a certain amount of hidden space, that space is resurved
> > for compensating bad sectors which all IDE drives get, its a way of fooling
> > you to think your disk has no problems, now when that space has been depleted
> > you start to get errors and see all sorts of funny things happening.
> >
> > 2) They will possably start to appier very quickly now, and they WILL cause
> > more corruption to your filesystems quicker that you think.
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> Are you saying to forgo all IDE, EIDE drives in favor of SCSI
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No.
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Regards Richard.
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