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From: Cronos on 22 Jan 2010 16:35 Arno wrote: > Not really. My problem is that I don't like the style and > that the ideas were not new to me. I take it you don't watch any movie that has the same general theme as another movie then? That must weed out 99% of your movie watching because there are only about 4 general themes in all movies. > Actually you cannot read it up. Well, you can, but mostly in > the archives of this group, as the actual meaning differs by > drive and environmental conditions. The part that takes > intelligence is to find out whether the meaning for a similar > drive is duplicated or not and how a specific drive behaves. You call Hesse boring but reading about SMART data isn't? Gee, you must be a really exciting guy and I bet the women just love your conversational skills.
From: Cronos on 22 Jan 2010 16:37 Franc Zabkar wrote: > For example, the author of HD Tune doesn't appear to understand that > raw attribute values are 48-bit numbers rather than 32-bit. HD Tune > will therefore sometimes report negative decimal numbers for the "LBAs > Read and Written" attributes. I don't care about that. If HDTune shows a red block on a pretty yellow background then I know there is an issue with the HDD.
From: Cronos on 22 Jan 2010 16:38 Gerry wrote: > Cronos > > The version you are referring to is 4, whereas an earlier version still > available is Freeware. > > OK, thanks.
From: Franc Zabkar on 22 Jan 2010 18:35 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:37:29 -0800, Cronos <cronos(a)sphere.invalid> put finger to keyboard and composed: >Franc Zabkar wrote: > >> For example, the author of HD Tune doesn't appear to understand that >> raw attribute values are 48-bit numbers rather than 32-bit. HD Tune >> will therefore sometimes report negative decimal numbers for the "LBAs >> Read and Written" attributes. > >I don't care about that. If HDTune shows a red block on a pretty yellow >background then I know there is an issue with the HDD. What you know is that HD Tune's author thinks there is an issue. Tell me why HD Tune's author chooses to highlight the following Spin Retry Count in yellow: http://eric514.mailpeers.net/hd-tune-ST3500630A.jpg - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
From: Arno on 22 Jan 2010 20:45
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Cronos <cronos(a)sphere.invalid> wrote: > Franc Zabkar wrote: >> For example, the author of HD Tune doesn't appear to understand that >> raw attribute values are 48-bit numbers rather than 32-bit. HD Tune >> will therefore sometimes report negative decimal numbers for the "LBAs >> Read and Written" attributes. > I don't care about that. If HDTune shows a red block on a pretty yellow > background then I know there is an issue with the HDD. A bit of an extremely simplicitic view of a complex issue... Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |