[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-Id: <1204742033.6408.37.camel@localhost>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:33:53 -0700
From: Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, jeff@...zik.org,
linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, alan@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it
means."
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 18:22 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl> wrote:
> > "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@...il.com> writes:
> >
> >
> > > [ Actually, I'm not surprised as we are getting patches/reports for much
> > > older/buggier hardware... After all we are doing Linux not some other
> > > OS whose every release obsoletes the old hardware. ;-) ]
> >
> > It isn't just about old/buggy hardware (personally I'm using much
> > older items). The DTLA disks had "rather" short MTBF, with something
> > like 30% returns in the first year after purchase, according to a
> > friendly distributor. Despite firmware upgrades, they were unfixable.
>
> Ah, you meant that it was a DeathStar drive... well, a lucky survivor...
In my experience what they needed was proper cooling. I have a 3ware
RAID-5 array of 4 120 GB DeskStar drives still working. In a nice RAID
enclosure with fans, not tucked next to an overclocked video card and
the power supply.
--
Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (190 bytes)
Powered by blists - more mailing lists