linux-kernel - Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted?

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Message-ID: <20090120163028.63efeb1a@diego-desktop>
Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:30:28 +0100
From:	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted?

El Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:32:25 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu escribió:

> The $64 question is, of course: What exactly should the operating system
> *do* if it detects one of these drives?  Prohibit it from bricking later
> by essentially bricking it *now*?   What if the drive already has a lot of
> production data on it?

Yeah, that's why I asked. Now that I think about it, it should probably be
the HAL people who should add one of those desktop "bubbles" warning the
users about the possible failure (they already do it for faulty batteries)
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