Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:39:17 +1000 | From | CaT <> | Subject | Re: scsi-destroyer.c to come... |
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 08:02:58PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, David Luyer wrote: > > > > David Luyer wrote: > > > > It is _much_ easier to do "cat </dev/zero >/dev/sda" > > > > > > You're missing the point. Your example simply zeros out the data space. What > > > Andre is talking about will actually damage the drive requiring you to ship it > > > to depot for repair. My guess is that most people will be buying a new drive > > > since either a) they didn't have a warantee or b) it is expired. > > > > Not his SCSI one. That was just a format disk. Andre is trying to make > > something out of nothing new or surprising in the SCSI case. > > David Luyer == /dev/null > > The point of that example was to show it can be done. > Do you think that I would expose more than that...... > > I guess your company's IT is trivial and you can afford to have your > servers issued a fragmented FORMAT command in the most critical part of > the disk and wipe data that is not backed up. > > Are you that arrogant to not understand the nature of the example. > > GO-AWAY YOU ARE A END-USER!
He so very much is not. Andre, you're not going to win the argument by randomly insulting every person who disagrees with you. Hell, I sincerely doubt that you're going to win this argument by even selectively insulting every person who disagrees with you.
Time to take a chill-pill.
-- CaT (cat@zip.com.au) URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null
'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'
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