Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757283AbYCESej (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:34:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752201AbYCESe3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:34:29 -0500 Received: from threatwall.zlynx.org ([199.45.143.218]:33780 "EHLO zlynx.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752082AbYCESe2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:34:28 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means." From: Zan Lynx To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <58cb370e0803050922p7695771cq393120ed5906efb7@mail.gmail.com> 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> <58cb370e0803050922p7695771cq393120ed5906efb7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-fbh5dxq7PBazqw0zVNmd" Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:33:53 -0700 Message-Id: <1204742033.6408.37.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-Envelope-From: zlynx@acm.org X-Spam-Id: 20080305/1JWyR7-0000ok-JF-linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org:zlynx@acm.org:199.45.143.218 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1785 Lines: 50 --=-fbh5dxq7PBazqw0zVNmd Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 18:22 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > 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 m= uch > > > older/buggier hardware... After all we are doing Linux not some o= ther > > > 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. >=20 > Ah, you meant that it was a DeathStar drive... well, a lucky survivor... In my experience what they needed was proper cooling. I have a 3ware RAID-5 array of 4 120 GB DeskStar drives still working. In a nice RAID enclosure with fans, not tucked next to an overclocked video card and the power supply. --=20 Zan Lynx --=-fbh5dxq7PBazqw0zVNmd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHzueRolqWs/Y4NLwRAoRlAJ9TsH/GuNS7piBUtbOkcLH0YKnKoACglXYZ U7PUdSAr5/DqvfuG4HMMs54= =QYWQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fbh5dxq7PBazqw0zVNmd-- -- 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/