While exploring the causes and results of my recent checksum problems (still researching!) I contacted local friend Val Henson. By coincidence, she had recently written an article for Linux World News on disk drive failure, with pointers to more papers:
http://lwn.net/Articles/237924/ This is a thought-provoking article that most of you should read. It provides some real-world data to help make decisions about backups and the type of drives to do them on. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
