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Message-ID: <47D00721.3070002@rtr.ca>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:00:49 -0500
From: Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
To: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@....fi>,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
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."
Mark Lord wrote:
>
> The original Deathstar ailment had nothing to do with firmware or cooling.
> But rather, a bad batch of chips that IBM had the misfortune to use a
> lot of.
>
> The chips would grow tiny internal whiskers over a period of 2+ years,
> and eventually short circuit themselves.
...
Oddly enough, the Wikipedia entry doesn't include this information,
but does talk about other failure modes of the 75GXP series.
Cheers
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