Anno domini 2020 Thu, 10 Sep 15:44:58 -0700 Mike Bird via tde-users scripsit: > On Thu September 10 2020 14:26:20 William Morder via trinity-users via > tde-users wrote: > > Do I need to identify (or calculate the position) of these bad blocks? > > I don't mean this disrespectfully but just to better apprise you > of your situation. > > What you're doing is kind of like brain surgery and if you're > doing brain surgery and you're asking a diabetics mailing list > whether it's OK to remove this lumpy bit then you probably > shouldn't be doing brain surgery. > > I have a master's in computer science and a lifetime of experience > and if I have to recover a hard drive in that kind of state I do a > lot of reading and studying. Sometimes I have to read the source > code of a tool to see what it is really doing. If I have to ask a > question I ask subject matter experts, not users of this magnificent > desktop environment. And with all that I don't always succeed. Now that you mention brain surgery ... there was that old put-that-disk-in-the-fridge-trick. Remember some unpleasent situations with cables running from the wrong side of the fridge and a stressed guy defending that assembly against zombies trying to steal strawberry icecream which happed to be an essental part of the plan ... might be it was myself :) nik > > --Mike > _______________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting