On 2/3/2010 1:21 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message<4b69cd90.8080...@krotus.com>, Jordan Share writes: >> On 2/3/2010 6:18 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Well, you can always partition the disk in half, and literally >> never write to the "last half" of the disk (which is what I thought >> Bob to be suggesting in his post). > > Again, that only works if the FAL knows that half contains no > good data to begin with...
Yes, and after a "secure erase" command (and, presumably, fresh from the factory), the FAL does know that there is no good data on the disk, right? (As mentioned here: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=11 ) Jordan _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
