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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks?
Date: 24 Nov 2001 14:28:00 -0800
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Followup to:  <tgy9kwf02c.fsf@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
By author:    Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> > However, if it's really true that DTLA drives and their successor
> > corrupt blocks (generate bad blocks) on power loss during block writes,
> > these drives are crap.
> 
> They do, even IBM admits that (on
> 
>         http://www.cooling-solutions.de/dtla-faq
> 
> you find a quote from IBM confirming this).  IBM says it's okay, you
> have to expect this to happen.  So much for their expertise in making
> hard disks.  This makes me feel rather dizzy (lots of IBM drives in
> use).
> 

No sh*t.  I have always been favouring IBM drives, and I had a RAID
system with these drives bought.  It will be a LONG time before I buy
another IBM drive, that's for sure.  I can't believe they don't even
have the decency of saying "we fucked".

	-hpa
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