[ale] ASUS P5MT question

[James Sumners]

I don't know of any consumer grade IDE drives that park the heads when
power is cut. The drive that got jacked is a Seagate Barracuda
(160GB). Not exactly a shabby drive.

I didn't say a single power off caused the bad sectors. I had to do it
many times, when I first loaded SuSE 10.1, until I figured out what
was causing the hangs. The filesystem on the drive was XFS. I believe
a journaling filesystem increases the chances of this occurring.

On 7/22/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'd love to have someone tell me I'm wrong, but, I don't think that a
> > hard reboot is capable of damaging your hard drive.
> >
> > Anyone?  Seriously, I don't really know, but can't imagine how a
> > hardware problem such as physical damage to the drive is possible in
> > such a scenario.
>
> I think in very old drives (with fewer capacitors) it was possible to
> drop power and have the still moving heads mess up writes, but I don't
> think it would cause bad blocks or other hardware level destruction.
>
> -Jim P.
>
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