Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 23:46:04 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error Message-ID: <20010530064604.1DBFF380E@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010528193755.I67783-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> > Yah, I figured that out... I hadn't even considered it could happen wit
h
> > a brand new IBM drive! Ah well... back to the
> > tried-and-true-but-run-slightly-hot seacrates.
> >
> > -Matt
>
> Unfortunately, it sounds like you're not alone. If you check out various
> hardware message boards, there are people hopping mad about recent IBM
> drives having a high failure rate. :|
>
> But they support tagged queueing, so you can safely write cache! :)
Sounds like the DTLA series drives.. The biggest piles of junk I've seen!in
quite a while.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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