[mdlug] New hard drive

[Jeff Hanson]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks good as far as I could see. But I'd like expert comment on
> it. Also I've been told that Google has
> found zero correlation between smartctl results and disk life. Should
> I be doing something else to get
> the hard drive to tell the truth about its bad sector count?

Looks safe to me.  The Google reference about SMART is accurate - it's
just an idiot light.

> Assuming all is well: What distros would serve me best?

Trying to start an argument?

> My 160G has Fedora Core 4, plus a kanotix boot CD copied to a hard
> disk partition. I might put multiple
> distros on the new drive. Wanted in as few distros as possible:
>
> * Support for ACX100 chipset wireless card
> * Support for Samsung ML1710 printer
> *  Screen resolution 1280x1024 or better on OptiQuest monitor
> * Virtual machine software
> * Latest Firefox, other browsers, video and sound players, plus all codecs
> * Latest non-Beta Open Office
> * Support for BT848 Video Capture card (less important)
>
> Recommendations?

Not Corel.