Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760168AbYCERW2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:22:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756713AbYCERWR (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:22:17 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:43319 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755957AbYCERWQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:22:16 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Z/y4lqp5cqg3IWmDAt/68cpLIemVnql51GlGEwOYDbtlhBMG5158l95QJ8hUwLqMvE/LFsaA4Ksxphe7xnVzhsx4x04NkGUXm788HMeIuAk1R20K6oYCm8NnVjlMVXDP1UZIhit2qQwIxFWh2hNyGpevtYq0TAqrI9jvwdh4kiQ= Message-ID: <58cb370e0803050922p7695771cq393120ed5906efb7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:22:13 +0100 From: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" To: "Krzysztof Halasa" Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means." Cc: "Alan Cox" , "Andrew Morton" , jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200803042316.m24NGI7k002489@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20080304173058.7679b7c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080305115610.397b3ea3@the-village.bc.nu> <200803051421.14167.bzolnier@gmail.com> <58cb370e0803050846t7dbd65d6ocfec7ca5e93aa6db@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 19 On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" writes: > > > > [ Actually, I'm not surprised as we are getting patches/reports for much > > older/buggier hardware... After all we are doing Linux not some other > > OS whose every release obsoletes the old hardware. ;-) ] > > It isn't just about old/buggy hardware (personally I'm using much > older items). The DTLA disks had "rather" short MTBF, with something > like 30% returns in the first year after purchase, according to a > friendly distributor. Despite firmware upgrades, they were unfixable. Ah, you meant that it was a DeathStar drive... well, a lucky survivor... -- 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/