Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763895AbYCFPBE (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:01:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757457AbYCFPAw (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:00:52 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:2762 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756705AbYCFPAv (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:00:51 -0500 Message-ID: <47D00721.3070002@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:00:49 -0500 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?VmlsbGUgU3lyasOkbMOk?= , Krzysztof Halasa , Zan Lynx , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means." 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> <1204742033.6408.37.camel@localhost> <20080306111304.GK531@sci.fi> <47D006A1.8070000@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <47D006A1.8070000@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 19 Mark Lord wrote: > > The original Deathstar ailment had nothing to do with firmware or cooling. > But rather, a bad batch of chips that IBM had the misfortune to use a > lot of. > > The chips would grow tiny internal whiskers over a period of 2+ years, > and eventually short circuit themselves. ... Oddly enough, the Wikipedia entry doesn't include this information, but does talk about other failure modes of the 75GXP series. Cheers -- 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/