a modest request

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:56:57AM -0500, gslink wrote:
> Linux works very well with disc sizes of less than 1g.  There are lots 
> of these older discs around and if you want to make a firewall or other 
> application which doesn't require lots of disc then these are excellent. 

The era of disks that didn't always deal with bad blocks is well before
drives hit the enormous inconceivable capacity of 1Gb. 

>  If you are planning to use a large server then a new disc is a must. 
> As I have said before older discs don't have the checks that modern 
> discs have.  There are even modern 20g drives that require you to 
> lockout bad sectors.

Only faulty ones. And if they happen to be IBM/Hitachi then you should 
get the firmware updates for the "deathstar" drives applied if relevant.

Alan