Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932406Ab0FCIXO (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 04:23:14 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:40752 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756569Ab0FCIXM (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 04:23:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SC/n+tlI00A50dOfPnTnfjFEKv56djCgQQslFE3DvHHEHBUv2FbYEwd43cThXcnidJ 5njMdwPmaLzn0bbfMTfNUQxLSjmlMfq8mSxm4fLu8L2V57Efjr/8gGFIOBsTixCtduDD ZarUNykSxIi+eMnkRTNQ0FGnaUrJY8q4hiD18= Message-ID: <4C07666A.7000705@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:23:06 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Fjellstrom CC: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: failed command FLUSH CACHE EXT References: <201005292046.06344.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net> <201006021510.52463.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net> <201006021742.32232.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net> In-Reply-To: <201006021742.32232.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 870 Lines: 23 Hello, On 06/03/2010 01:42 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > I seem to have rather bad luck with hard drives. Every time I buy more than > two, I tend to get one or two failures out of the batch. 25-50% failure rate > almost. Horrible. I at least average 1 dead hard drive a year since I got my > first computer. Hmmm... that sounds really high. Out of how many? Hard drives do fail sometimes but not that easily even if you put it under relatively heavy use 24/7. Maybe there is a common cause - say, instable power, vibration, impact or whatever? Or maybe the universe just doesn't like you? :-) Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/