Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 06:34:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 06:34:49 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust128.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.128]:7413 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 06:34:48 -0400 Subject: Re: Hi is this critical?? From: Alan Cox To: Andre Hedrick Cc: jbradford@dial.pipex.com, Nuitari , venom@sns.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xavier.bestel@free.fr, mark@veltzer.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 17 Sep 2002 11:41:44 +0100 Message-Id: <1032259304.13990.5.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 21 On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 09:20, Andre Hedrick wrote: > MORONS that think the drive vendors are not clued into the issue. > I have to read and vote on NASTY proposals, whose intent is to check for > G-Force damage. If you think that record is not findable, even if you Sounds good news for honest users. What it does want though is the ability of users to check that data when the disk arrives, because we have delivery people, and they think that if looks like a box its probably a football. I've noticed putting one way temperature strips into things is becoming popular to which is nice, but again its done in a way the user can't get the data, while for high end enterprise/business use knowing you accidentally cooked a disk is really important for making decisions both about new fans/aircon and also about whether to replace - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/