This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C091B4.E9FD036C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I seem to replace more hard drives in clients with smoking offices. Smoking offices are still legal in the UK (I moved here from Phoenix two years ago), if you can believe that! Mark Firestone -------------------------- Old Phoenix BBS User? Sign up for the Phoenix BBS list! http://tardis3.netfirms.com --jkenner@mindspring.com wrote Software RAID5 with partitions is ANYTHING but pointless. If your at all familiar with how bad blocks tend to group up around a particular defect as a drive ages, RAID5 across partitions represents an ideal single-drive solution to medium failures. Considering the obscene number of people in Arizona who seem to feel smoking indoors is not only a god-given right, but even appropriate ... software RAID 5 might just come in handy (those drives are vented, believe it or not, thru filters) Doesnt do any good if the drive's electronics or mechanics fail, however. -- jkenner @ mindspring . com__ I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| To Build A Better Future. | ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ------_=_NextPart_001_01C091B4.E9FD036C Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: array (hardware) question

I seem to replace more hard drives in clients with = smoking offices.
Smoking offices are still legal in the UK (I moved = here from
Phoenix two years ago), if you can believe = that!

Mark Firestone

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Old Phoenix BBS User?  Sign up for the Phoenix = BBS list!

http://tardis3.netfirms.com


--jkenner@mindspring.com wrote

Software RAID5 with partitions is ANYTHING but = pointless. If your at
all familiar with how bad blocks tend to group up = around a particular
defect as a drive ages, RAID5 across partitions = represents an ideal
single-drive solution to medium failures. = Considering the obscene
number of people in Arizona who seem to feel smoking = indoors is not
only a god-given right, but even appropriate ... = software RAID 5 might
just come in handy (those drives are vented, believe = it or not, thru
filters)

Doesnt do any good if the drive's electronics or = mechanics fail,
however.


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jkenner @ mindspring . com__
I Support = Linux:           = _> _  _ |_  _  _     _|
Working Together = To       <__(_||_)| )| = `(_|(_)(_|
To Build A Better = Future.       = |            = ;       <s>

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