Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 22:05:07 +0200
From:      Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error
Message-ID:  <20010530220507.L15580@messiah.megadeb.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B153FBC.ED53FB6C@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400
References:  <20010528193755.I67783-100000@achilles.silby.com> <20010530064604.1DBFF380E@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010530110828.L78320@numachi.com> <20010530195416.K15580@messiah.megadeb.org> <3B153FBC.ED53FB6C@mitre.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote:
> 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.

Yeah it was quite Slashdottish. I just summed up the few things that
were confirmed by several people. Since reading that, I saw the
overheating theory on aother board too. I've been happy with my IBM
drives so far, but if a drive fails just because it gets a little bit
warm, I'll be looking other places. I must admit, something or the other
stinks of brain-damaged engineering...

-- 
-Munish

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010530220507.L15580>