RE: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks?

[Galappatti, Kishantha]

im curious also.. what do you mean you've "exposed" yourself already? is
this a trade secret?

--kish

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro M. Rodrigues [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 6:53 AM
To: Wayne Whitney; Andre Hedrick
Cc: LKML
Subject: Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks?

   Just curious but what can a selfttest mode and consequent block 
test do to inspire you such worry? Are we dealing with the mob or 
something of the sort when we buy an IBM 75GXP disk? 

/Pedro

On 27 Nov 2001 at 13:52, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> 
> 
> What you have done is trigger a process to have the device go into a
> selftest mode to perform a block test.  I would tell you more but I
> may have exposed myself already.
>