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From: Arno on 19 Oct 2009 02:40 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: > Ant wrote: >> It sounds SpinRite v6 is still useful. Am I missing something? > A lot of SpinRite's claims are simply marketing. That's all you're missing. > Yousuf Khan Good summary. Arno
From: Ant on 19 Oct 2009 09:45 On 10/18/2009 4:04 PM PT, Arno typed: > Incidentially several other tools will run regular surface > scans, and they are critical for early problem detection. Thanks. Does Smartctl's long tests do surface scans? -- "Ant colonies are remarkably similar to cities. No one choreographs the action, not even the queen ant, but ant behavior is controlled by swarm logic--put 10,000 dumb ants together, and they become smart. They will calculate the shortest routes to food supplies sniffing out pheromone signals from other ants and Johnson says people do the same thing in cities using low-level interactions of people on the street." --Alex Cukan, "Stories of modern science," United Press International, October 8, 2001 /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: Ant on 19 Oct 2009 09:46 On 10/18/2009 11:40 PM PT, Arno typed: > Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: >> Ant wrote: >>> It sounds SpinRite v6 is still useful. Am I missing something? > >> A lot of SpinRite's claims are simply marketing. That's all you're missing. > >> Yousuf Khan > > Good summary. Thanks all. Someone should update Wikipedia's datas too. -- "Ant colonies are remarkably similar to cities. No one choreographs the action, not even the queen ant, but ant behavior is controlled by swarm logic--put 10,000 dumb ants together, and they become smart. They will calculate the shortest routes to food supplies sniffing out pheromone signals from other ants and Johnson says people do the same thing in cities using low-level interactions of people on the street." --Alex Cukan, "Stories of modern science," United Press International, October 8, 2001 /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: Arno on 19 Oct 2009 12:54 Ant <ant(a)zimage.comant> wrote: > On 10/18/2009 4:04 PM PT, Arno typed: >> Incidentially several other tools will run regular surface >> scans, and they are critical for early problem detection. > Thanks. Does Smartctl's long tests do surface scans? Yes. I meant you can shedule them to run automatically at set intervalls. Smartctl cannot do that, but the smartd in the same package can and at least n Debian does as default. Arno
From: bbbl67 on 19 Oct 2009 21:46
On Oct 19, 9:46 am, Ant <a...(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: > Thanks all. Someone should update Wikipedia's datas too. Ouch! It looks like there is a war going on within that Wiki article's talk section. Almost as bad as any war that goes on in here. :-) Yousuf Khan |