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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 14:45:16 -0400
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error
Message-ID:  <3B153FBC.ED53FB6C@mitre.org>
References:  <20010528193755.I67783-100000@achilles.silby.com> <20010530064604.1DBFF380E@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010530110828.L78320@numachi.com> <20010530195416.K15580@messiah.megadeb.org>

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Munish Chopra wrote:
> I just finished reading this:
> 
> http://www.storagereview.com/jive/sr/thread.jsp?forum=1&thread=13134
> 
> ...it's a message board at a pretty decent storage site. There aren't
> too many great posts, but what seems to be pretty consistent is that the
> problems arise (in part) because Windows 98 and ME shut down too fast -
> so I'm assuming this has to do with the "Yes I wrote the data (ha ha I'm
> lying)" 'feature' that has been discussed lately. A few people have just
> had it show up when writing to the disk...

One interesting theory on there was that the drives were overheating and
somehow damanging themselves.  Although this doesn't seem too likely, 
I wonder if it isn't a catalyst.

Truthfully, that board was all over the place, and I'm not sure I trust
any of the posts on there any farther than I could throw them.


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