Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757260AbXEQPE1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 11:04:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754561AbXEQPEV (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 11:04:21 -0400 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:58575 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754537AbXEQPEU (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 11:04:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:04:20 -0400 To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Rob Landley , Tejun Heo , Dave Jones , Francesco Pretto , Phillip Susi , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674) Message-ID: <20070517150420.GA10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <200705161948.56497.rob@landley.net> <20070517005842.GC600@khazad-dum.debian.net> <200705162305.11755.rob@landley.net> <20070517033947.GA24757@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070517033947.GA24757@khazad-dum.debian.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 680 Lines: 15 On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:39:47AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Actually, in my limited experience, SAS is marginally less crappy than SATA, > and has a higher MTBF, probably because the manufacturers try to cut less > corners. But if one can get high-quality SATA drives (where?!), I don't > know why SAS would be superior to SATA. SAS is dual ported so you can have redundant cables and controllers. -- Len Sorensen - 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/