Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-31 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Adliger Martinez von der Unterschicht wrote: I am a total amateur and new to the list. I moved recently from linux and I am running openbsd usually (not on this system) because of a number of things (I guess I don't need to be eloquent here). And asks me how my OS behaves. Is there a

linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread Adliger Martinez von der Unterschicht
Hi, I am a total amateur and new to the list. I moved recently from linux and I am running openbsd usually (not on this system) because of a number of things (I guess I don't need to be eloquent here). Now, a friend of mine has found a big problem:

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread steve szmidt
On Saturday 27 October 2007, Adliger Martinez von der Unterschicht wrote: Hi, I am a total amateur and new to the list. I moved recently from linux and I am running openbsd usually (not on this system) because of a number of things (I guess I don't need to be eloquent here). Now, a friend

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/10/27 14:57, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: I don't think he's asking for a solution to his problems but whether openbsd also has such a problem... which I don't think... but I don't have arguments Well, that depends on what software you run. I noticed the drive in my X40 doing this a lot the

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread steve szmidt
On Saturday 27 October 2007, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: I don't think he's asking for a solution to his problems but whether openbsd also has such a problem... which I don't think... but I don't have arguments Hey, I'm sure you are totally right! It just struck me a bit silly sounding, and since

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:34:27AM +0200, Adliger Martinez von der Unterschicht wrote: Now, a friend of mine has found a big problem: http://www.linux-hero.com/rant/explanation-ubuntu-hard-drive-wear-and-tear https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/59695

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Hey, I'm sure you are totally right! It just struck me a bit silly sounding, and since he's a self proclaimed newbee, and me being willing to constructively help others, I thought it be good to know that there's a simple way around the issue. yes, but this is not a linux mailing list and, as

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread bofh
I'm really curious, I've never heard of a HD firmware killing bug in linux since 1.3.x. I used to spend a lot of time following linux in the 1.2 1.3 kernel times and don't recall hearing about that bug. Thanx. On 10/27/07, Tonnerre LOMBARD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salut, On Sat, Oct 27, 2007

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:14:49PM -0500, bofh wrote: I'm really curious, I've never heard of a HD firmware killing bug in linux since 1.3.x. I used to spend a lot of time following linux in the 1.2 1.3 kernel times and don't recall hearing about that bug. Well, that was when I first

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread A5an0
Adliger Martinez von der Unterschicht wrote: Hi, I am a total amateur and new to the list. I moved recently from linux and I am running openbsd usually (not on this system) because of a number of things (I guess I don't need to be eloquent here). Now, a friend of mine has found a big

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:38:55PM -0500, Todd Alan Smith wrote: What exactly were the symptoms of your drive being linux'd? It tries to imitate a brick as closely as possible. Also, I'm wondering if this discussion shouldn't be taken off-list, since it's really about Linux, not

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Well, the entire thread was started as Linux killing hard disks, wasn't it? and asking for Obsd information... :) what about A4an0's question? I've been running OpenBSD on my laptop for about a month (I've had 3 servers o it since 3.1) and I havn't noticed an issue like the one you're talking