Only one thing to add:
When I tell a program to write to a specific sector on a disk, I cannot know anymore that the disk will really write there.

I can only know that it will write the data somewhere.

We tried that in an informatics class: Write data to the outer rim and to the inner rim of the disk. The outer rim should have different access values than the inner rim, for physical reasons (the disk spins).

Our results didn't show that effect. Rather they showed us that modern hard disks optimize the data layout internally, so even when some tool completely erases any trace which could be found by software, you can't know if there aren't parts which remain in a sector the disk began to see as unfit.

Another example: If my disk gets a "dead bit", I won
t see anything of it, if I didn't have some data on it.
If it's empty, the disk will just silently remap the logic bit to some otehr hardware bit, and no software tool will be able to access it.

Long story short: Additionally to recovery programs, a physical check of your disk can uncover stuff which wasn't even reachable by software anymore.

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Words fail me in expressing how very, very disappointed I am that no one, especially OCca, picked up on the above !!!

Perhaps it is because said SNA is the international prefix for good old
John Wayne International Airport (Love the 'International' bit !)

Nah !!! That can't be the reason.

Must be because any community that is so disturbed as to name an airport after a d00d that was ashamed of his real name is also, rightly so, perhaps ashamed of itself !?

I mean, who wants to park their illicit-gotten-gains G7 at
Marion Michael Morrison 'International' Airport ???


er, It's also kinda hard to believe in some ugly right-wing psycho named Marion,eh ?...

Even if he was fabricated into being Saint John of Dumfukistan.



Which brings me to the closer of this delightful post in this totally useless and grossly misnamed thread...

OCca, there's a lot of the californica in you and the majority of your posts make it obvious that you are one of the untold millions of sit-in-zens of The People's Imperialistic Kleptocracy Of Dumfukistan who have learned to write before they can read.

Kiss Kiss

OK

I changed the title of this thread.

It was always inappropriate and grossly unfair to Limewire.

This should have been done long ago.

wow....now that's a true act of fairness from an admitted LW basher...lol...

note: I've flown on a plane twice in the past 28 years....round trips...once from San Francisco to San Antonio, and once from here to Atlanta for my grandmother's funeral...and have never flown out of Los Angeles...flew quite a few times when I was much younger out of San Jose...the point being I was clueless about the SNA issue

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The whole rant was ... well...

Hey, Peerless !

I think I've finally found my first fan club member !!!

btw... Marion wasn't very tall, either !
Not exactly Alan Ladd Munchkin-like, but gittin' thar !!!

Mind you, old Marion did have the singular line in a movie that absolutely defines the great Dumfukistani ethos...

"You get your crew out there, in the morning, sober and on time !"

hallelujah !!! hallelujah, hallelujah !!!!!!!! u.s.w.