On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:32:05 -0600, Tim Judd <taj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not just diagnostics and recovery, it's for preventive maintenance, > and healthy operations too. Most people who use it are in a > diagnostics and recovery, but if you always use it as preventive > maintenance, you'll never need to use it for diagnostics and recovery. > > People complain about it: "I keep running spinrite, but it never finds > problems!" .... exactly, it's doing it's job and not having to > recover. It's doing the work the drive needs to swap out bad sectors > and everything.
Well, and its price is not as high as most recovery tools. So prevention is cheaper than intervention here. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
