On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
> En Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:56:09PM +0800, fooler escribio:
> #_
> #_ oic but beware of imitated and poor brand of ide which give you a shorter
> #_ life expectancy. my favorite ide drive is seagate and for five years now, it
> #_ is still up and running without a bad blocks. :->
>
> In the price list of PCExpress they have an IBM 20.4GB @7200 RPM for P4900+
> I was thinking of getting this drive, any comments would be apreciated.
>
> I'm more partial to Quantum drives actually.
>
> TIA
>
> PS: Is it true that if you are using ReiserFS and your drive develops a bad
> block you are totally screwed?
That is the _major_ complaint against reiser, to which i've not seen any
public explanation from the team yet. Note that it doesn't take a bad
block to trash your system. A memory or board problem may trigger this
(read: CPU overheating), and it has happened to me more than once. Total
FS corruption. It basically requires the windows solution to get your
linux box up again: reformat and reload OS.
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