RE: RedHat Disk Dangers? [was: Linux and ADSL]

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

my spectacular disk foobar episode happened on my LAPTOP, using an IDE disk,
not a SCSI disk.  It didn't happen as a result of doing any low-level FS
ops, it just HAPPENED while updatedb was doing its normal running through
and finding-of-truffles that it does on a daily basis.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Q [mailto:jq@example.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 6:54 AM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Re: RedHat Disk Dangers? [was: Linux and ADSL]


SN_Diamond (Norman.Diamond@example.com) wrote:

> better figure out a way to test...  Ah, but you say you haven't seen Red
Hat
> do that on IDE disks, it only does that to SCSI disks? 

No, he said he's never seen it happen on a fixed disk (and he don't mean
"repaired" or "neutered" :-) 

I've never seen it
happen on a fixed disk either (I run mostly SCSI, but have an
IDE in one machine).  I have no removeable disks, so can't
test it there.  And maybe I'm just as well off not being
able to duplicate this :-)

Jonathan

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