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Subject: Re: Suspend support for IDE
In-Reply-To: <E16joxm-0002g6-00@the-village.bc.nu> from Alan Cox at "Mar 9, 2002
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From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Also there is the some fun about buggy drives and power up happenings. On no
> account can you issue any command that might touch the platter unless you
> know the drive is at full running speed when spinning up certain old drives
> because the firmware in some cases forgets to check the drive is at speed
> and you physically destroy the disk over time. Thankfully thats old old
> drives (540Mb quantum if I remember rightly)

That could be 1.6G or 2.5G WD drives. AC31600, AC32500. 

			Roger. 

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